Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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As strikes continue on Iranian military infrastructure, the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world is watching from Los Angeles. For many of them, this conflict started the day they left.
So what does this moment actually look like to the people who left, who still have family there, and who have spent decades studying the region?

In this episode, surgeon Dr. Hooman Melamed, foreign policy analyst Lisa Daftari, and Shahrzad Ghanei, Senior Editor at Epoch Times Persian edition, walk us through what the ground situation actually looks like and what's materially different about the conditions on the ground right now.

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