Following the takeover of Iran by non secular zealots in 1979, tens of millions fled the nation in a large diaspora of people who didn’t need to live under the mullahs’ oppressive rule. Guess where the largest quantity of them migrated to?

Los Angeles, California. In fact, some call it “Tehrangeles“:

The Greater Los Angeles space is home to the largest focus of people of Iranian descent exterior Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, it has served as a capital for exiles. By 2019, more than half of Iranian immigrants to the U.S. lived in California, with 29% — almost 140,000 people — dwelling in Los Angeles County alone, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

Many settled in the Westwood neighborhood of the metropolis, and as the news that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the U.S.-Israeli strikes in the operation recognized as “Epic Fury,” multitudes took to the streets Saturday to specific their pleasure.

Westwood la celebrating
the news of Ayatollah pic.twitter.com/UgbX96Ylrj

— Jessica Palmadessa (@JessPalmadessa) February 28, 2026

Here proper now! pic.twitter.com/vQybqv1xJ2

— TCAinLAX (@TCAinLAX) February 28, 2026

Every one of those becoming a member of the celebrations has a story to inform. Here’s my pal Dr. Houman Hemmati, a frequent Fox News contributor, who tells the shifting story of what it was like as a three-year-old boy to see his nation taken over

It’s a long tweet, but it is nicely value it; click on on it to read the relaxation.

🇮🇷 47 years in the past, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and listening to the chants that would steal my nation. I didn’t have phrases for what was occurring. Today, I’m watching smoke rise over the same metropolis — but this time the smoke will not be the end… pic.twitter.com/RGFXMOaykb

— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) February 28, 2026

Today, I’m watching smoke rise over the same metropolis — but this time the smoke will not be the end of Iran. It is, God prepared, the starting of her resurrection.

Of course, bitter leftists like actress Jane Fonda participated in protests downtown against the strikes (it’s a little late now, isn’t it, Jane?), seemingly arguing that the world was a better place when the Ayatollah was dwelling in. 

Although Fonda had a profitable appearing profession, for many people, the phrase “betrayal” is the first factor that comes to thoughts when discussing her because of her cozying up to North Korean troopers in 1972 during the Vietnam War.

I admire Jane Fonda taking the time to come down from her multi million greenback home in the hills to inform all the Iranian people why their liberation is a dangerous factor pic.twitter.com/FOpo1s9KnF

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) March 1, 2026

If Hanoi Jane takes a place on one thing, it’s a sure wager that the opposing view is the proper one.

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There was another Californian who didn’t admire America displaying dominant strength on the world stage, though, and that was, unsurprisingly, progressive Governor Gavin Newsom. I say “progressive” because he’s made great progress in destroying the Golden State.

As our Susie Moore reported Saturday, one motive we attacked when we did is that there was intelligence that Iran was about to strike American forces, which possible would have led to quite a few casualties. 

But to Gavin, defending your own is “illegal” and “dangerous”:

The corrupt and repressive Iranian regime must never have nuclear weapons. The management of Iran must go. But that doesn’t justify the President of the United States participating in an unlawful, harmful warfare that will risk the lives of our American service members and our pals…

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 28, 2026

But that doesn’t justify the President of the United States participating in an unlawful, harmful warfare that will risk the lives of our American service members and our pals without justification to the American people.

President Trump is placing Americans at risk overseas because he’s unpopular at home.

Yeah, that’s it, Gav — that and the fact that Iran was determined to get a nuclear weapon, and would possible have vaporized Israel the second they acquired one.

New York’s democrat socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and quite a few other mentally out-to-lunch Dems condemned the strikes, displaying once again that opposing Trump is more important to them than the security of United States army personnel and our legal residents.

Cry more durable, Gavin, Jane, and Zohran — it gained’t deliver back the sadistic and very former Supreme Leader. 

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s daring management, we’re revered on the world stage, and our enemies are being put on discover.

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