{"id":67701,"date":"2026-03-01T12:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/its-not-an-invasion-its-a-liberation-las-iranian-community-speaks-out-after-us-strikes-tehran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:57:44","slug":"its-not-an-invasion-its-a-liberation-las-iranian-community-speaks-out-after-us-strikes-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/its-not-an-invasion-its-a-liberation-las-iranian-community-speaks-out-after-us-strikes-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not an invasion, it\u2019s a liberation\u2019: LA\u2019s Iranian community speaks out after US strikes Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The desire to see an increasingly ruthless Iranian regime collapse has intensified in Iranian expat communities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/01\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-i-dead-latest-reports\">US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A decade ago, when Iran signed an agreement with the Obama administration and five other countries to give up its ambitions for a nuclear weapon, Alaleh Kamran was staunchly on the political left and welcomed the prospect of peace in the country of her birth.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, as Israel and the United States launched punishing airstrikes on Iran, she finds herself in a dramatically different headspace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/01\/los-angeles-iranian-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desire to see an increasingly ruthless Iranian regime collapse has intensified in Iranian expat communities US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 latest updates A decade ago, when Iran signed an agreement with the Obama administration and five other countries to give up its ambitions for a nuclear weapon, Alaleh Kamran was staunchly on the political &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s not an invasion, it\u2019s a liberation\u2019: LA\u2019s Iranian community speaks out after US strikes Tehran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/its-not-an-invasion-its-a-liberation-las-iranian-community-speaks-out-after-us-strikes-tehran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s not an invasion, it\u2019s a liberation\u2019: LA\u2019s Iranian community speaks out after US strikes Tehran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}