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Critics of Iran’s government say they fear retribution while in exile, as well as growing anti-immigrant sentiment.

Iranian-American Roozbeh Farahanipour poses for a picture outside his restaurant "Persian Gulf," in the so-called "Tehrangeles" neighborhood in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, Monday, May 20, 2024. Farahanipour, a leader of a student uprising in Iran in July 1999 before fleeing to the U.S. and settling in Los Angeles, said that he believes a world without President Ebrahim Raisi "will be better for all humanity." Farahanipour, who is also a leader of a resistance movement that calls for a secular Iran, said he would have preferred that Raisi be prosecuted and ultimately executed through the court system. But he called the helicopter crash "an act of God." (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Pastor Khader Khalilia shares how he builds understanding about the Palestinian experience at his church in New York.

Dressed in a grey blazer and a high-collar preacher's shirt, Pastor Khalilia opens the wrought-iron gate to his red-brick church. He holds prayer beads in one hand.