A free Iran is their shared dream. But the diaspora remains torn on the best path forward.

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LOS ANGELES — It was a tale of two protests. Just outside City Hall last Saturday, hundreds of Iranian Americans poured into the streets to decry the start of an unsanctioned war. They chanted “Stop the war in Iran” and “We the people don’t want war.” Across town, on the Westside, in a neighborhood known as “Tehrangeles,” hundreds of members of the same diaspora celebrated what they felt like could be the start of regime change in their homeland. They carried American, Israeli and Iranian flags,