jones diaspora Persians are among the lowest lifeforms on earth
I can't begrudge the scions of the comprador class their complicated feelings, they are what they are.
But we see many such cases among "Cuban exiles" in Miami, or Venezuelans too. Exile is co-constituted by its consequences for the exile and its rationale in the polity that rules for the exile. To declare the latter unjust on the word of the former is like asking Cain if he had his reasons.
Communities of "exiles" are fodder thrown before the imperial steamroller, their "amplified voices" silenced absolutely as soon as they're no longer useful. I'm sorry to say Trump's treatment of Machado has been a delight in its perverse confirmation of this principle.