Divisions were laid bare, too, among US Congress members with Iranian heritage.
Congresswoman Stephanie Bice, an Oklahoma Republican whose father is half-Iranian, posted on X: “Now is the time for Iranians to stand up and take back their nation and bring lasting peace to the Middle East.”
But Yassamin Ansari, an Arizona Democrat whose parents fled the 1979 Iranian Revolution to come to the US, expressed some misgivings.