"This is unprecedented, to have a nation take to the streets and ask a foreign country to bomb them so they can be liberated. They've been incarcerated and dominated for the last 47 years by an occupying regime. This is a cancer, and Trump is doing what Trump needs to be doing. As a Jew, I am standing behind him and behind Bibi [Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu]."
"Now she agrees with them when they say there can be no negotiating with an authoritarian government they view as no better than murderers. She and other community members the Guardian spoke with believe that a majority of Iranians agree, too, particularly in the wake of last month's killing of thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of street protesters seeking to overthrow the regime."
Alaleh Kamran, a Los Angeles-based criminal defense lawyer and former supporter of Iran's nuclear agreement, has shifted her political stance dramatically. She now supports US and Israeli airstrikes against Iran, aligning with conservative members of the Iranian Jewish community who opposed the deal from the beginning. Kamran and other community members believe the Iranian government is authoritarian and murderous, beyond negotiation. They report that many Iranians, particularly street protesters seeking regime change, have called for international military intervention. Kamran describes this as unprecedented, with a nation's citizens requesting foreign bombing to achieve liberation from what she characterizes as an occupying regime that has dominated Iran for 47 years.
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