A startling split in the Iranian American community - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : That gave me a free evening, since I was supposed to introduce the lecturer, Trita Parsi, author of three books about Iran.
56% : Given its millennia of cultural and political achievement, its size and location, and the sophistication of its people, Iran should be one of the world's leading nations.
48% : After The New York Times published a story suggesting that American sanctions played a role in sparking the current uprising in Iran, it received a petition with 15,000 signatures denouncing the story's author, Farnaz Fassihi, as "part of the dictatorial regime."
47% : (Mark your calendar: barring an ejection, Iran plays the United States on Nov. 29.)
46% : In 1953 American and British agents organized a coup that deposed Iran's democratic government, which had nationalized the oil industry.
44% : At a press conference in Washington last month, he described the protests in Iran as a "national revolution" and called for formation of an "interim government."
44% : After radical students seized the US embassy in Tehran, though, Ayatollah Khomeini embraced their cause and purged his government of all who disagreed.
43% : They favor harsh sanctions on Iran, an end to nuclear diplomacy, the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from foreign capitals, and even the ejection of Iran's soccer team from the forthcoming World Cup.
35% : Their militant critics believe that the current upheaval in Iran may be the Islamic Republic's death knell, and that total isolation would hasten its collapse.
33% : The wave of protests shaking Iran has dramatically sharpened the anger that now divides Iranian Americans.
31% : Those who favor negotiation with Iran, including a new nuclear deal, are being bitterly attacked by compatriots who reject any contact with the mullahs' regime while brave girls and women are being shot by police back home.
31% : She and other female journalists who write about Iran have been barraged with chillingly explicit threats.

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