Iranian Americans Express Patriotism Over Strikes on Iran

Demonstrations across the United States celebrated pre-revolutionary Iran and efforts to liberate the nation. 

A woman holds a portrait of President Donald Trump that reads "thank you," as people wave U.S. and Iranian pre-1979 Islamic Revolution flags as members of the Iranian community celebrate in front of the Federal Building in the West LA neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Feb. 28, 2026. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

Thousands of Iranian Americans rallied in support of recent military operations following strikes targeting the country’s ruling authorities, with pre-revolutionary Iranian and American flags seen waving together in demonstrations across the United States.

Houman Hemmati, a Jewish Persian American who escaped Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979 with family as a child, told The Epoch Times the patriotic surge in the diaspora “isn’t politics.“ It is ”family coming home.”