Six months into the Iran war, Iranian Americans remain divided over what comes next

Los Angeles — Six months since the United States and Israel launched the first strikes on Iran, the physical, financial and emotional impacts of the war have reverberated from Tehran across the world, including to the vast Iranian community in the US, which has been divided with varying opinions on how the war started and what is has – or hasn’t – accomplished.

For Aria Rostami, a 38-year-old Iranian American museum professional in New York who grew up in Southern California’s Iranian community, the past six months have fundamentally changed the way he relates to other Iranian Americans, being at odds with how enthusiastically some embraced the military intervention.“Why would you want the United States to be involved in a war or have any military action in Iran, given what we’ve seen in the last 20 years with Iraq, with Afghanistan, with Libya?”