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The desire to see an increasingly ruthless Iranian regime collapse has intensified in Iranian expat communities

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A decade ago, when Iran signed an agreement with the Obama administration and five other countries to give up its ambitions for a nuclear weapon, Alaleh Kamran was staunchly on the political left and welcomed the prospect of peace in the country of her birth.

Now, though, as Israel and the United States launched punishing airstrikes on Iran, she finds herself in a dramatically different headspace.