Iranians’ joy vs. Democrats’ shame
By CA Post Editorial Board
Published March 2, 2026, 10:39 p.m. ET
The outpouring of joy on the streets of LA is impossible to ignore.
Thousands of Iranian-Americans lined Wilshire Boulevard on Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that, they hope, will bring down the Iranian regime.
On Westwood Boulevard, in the heart of “Tehrangeles,” there were raucous cheers inside Persian restaurants. Flags hung everywhere — the sterile tulip of the Islamic Republic replaced by the lion-and-sun of the previous era.
The Iranian people, at home and abroad, believe that freedom is at hand, and that President Donald Trump is bringing the redemption for which they have waited for decades.
As local foreign policy analyst Lisa Daftari put it: “Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu just gave the Iranian people something they haven’t had in decades: OPTIMISM.
“They’re dancing from LA to Melbourne to Tehran not because the regime has fallen, but because they now know it will.”
A few Democrats understood the importance of the moment.
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