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This week, as conflict spreads across the Middle East following US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, our colleagues in Los Angeles checked in with the Iranian-American community in “Tehrangeles” on the city’s Westside. Some locals expressed hope for a regime change; others were wary of a prolonged civil war in their motherland and critical of President Donald Trump. “The Iranian-American community is like a sample of the American people,” said one neighborhood restauranteur. “They are divided.”