Hope, fear among Iranians in Seoul

In Seoul, Iranians gathered in two very different crowds this week — some singing and dancing in a Seongdong-gu bar to mark the death of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, others chanting outside the US Embassy to protest the bombing of Tehran. Their split captures a broader dilemma running through the Iranian diaspora over whether the war can end the dictatorship and whether it can ever deliver democracy. More than 100 Iranians gathered at a bar in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Sunday after the do

By The Korea Herald