Soroush, an Iranian immigrant who asked that his full identity not be disclosed, packs his belongings at his home in Washington, D.C, on September 1, 2026. Soroush says he has lost several longtime friendships because of political disagreements that deepened among Iranians following the January events in Iran and the subsequent conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States. He is considering relocating to another state as divisions over Iran's political future have increasingly affected his personal relationships. The 750,000-strong Iranian community in the US is overwhelmingly united in opposing Iran's Islamic regime whose top leadership has been decimated by the US-Israeli offensive that has destroyed swaths of the country's military and prompted global economic shocks. But deep fault lines have appeared among expatriates and exiles over whether the war will succeed in ending 47 years of clerical rule in their homeland. (Photo by Amid FARAHI / AFP via Getty Images)