上个月伊朗战争的开始给众议员Yassamin Ansari带来了“许多焦虑和复杂的感情”,他是国会中第一位伊朗裔美国民主党人。
“这是一种奇怪的感觉，你知道会发生什么，但接下来会发生什么的不确定性非常大，”安萨里在周日播出的一次采访中告诉美国广播公司“本周”的联合主播乔纳森·卡尔。“我马上给父母打了电话。”
这位亚利桑那州国会女议员在美国出生和长大。她的父母逃离了伊朗政权——她的父亲在美国学习，在1979年革命后无法回家。她母亲十几岁时独自来到这里。
“女性正在失去她们的权利，”安萨里解释道。“我的祖父在君主制垮台之前一直支持君主制，所以他被短暂监禁。就在那时，他们决定把我妈妈一个人送到这里。”
2月28日，特朗普政府与以色列一起对伊朗发动空袭，打死了阿亚图拉阿里·哈梅内伊。自战争爆发以来，美国和以色列一直在打击伊朗，而伊朗则在该地区以导弹和无人机袭击进行报复。最初的打击发生在持续数周的紧张局势和美国6月份对伊朗核设施的打击之后。
安萨里说，鉴于她的家庭与伊朗政权的历史，以及她对唐纳德·特朗普总统军事行动的影响的担忧，她对这场战争有着复杂的感情。
安萨里说:“从一个希望看到伊朗发生变化、积极变化、伊朗人民有一个更美好未来的人的角度来看，但作为一名美国众议员，我非常清楚我们在唐纳德·特朗普总统的领导下要应对什么，也知道这场战争没有计划或明确的目标，我有很多焦虑和复杂的感情。”。
安萨里说，哈梅内伊在最初的袭击中丧生的消息为伊朗的未来带来了“希望的感觉”。但是她说她的父母也有担忧。
“如果处理不好，一个拥有9000万人口的国家很可能会陷入内战。我认为这是他们从一开始就关心的问题，也是我关心的问题。
安萨里说，正在进行的战争在美国的伊朗侨民中“引起了很多内部冲突”
安萨里说:“关于人们是否应该抱有希望，什么是正确的事情，有很多争论。“许多人认为，除了外部军事干预，没有其他办法可以削弱这个政权。”
她说，侨民中有一部分人支持特朗普的军事行动，另一部分人完全反对。
“他们真的真的相信唐纳德·特朗普在这里有一个好计划，有积极的意图，这是真的，”她说。“我不同意这种说法。我认为另一个阵营非常反战，认为炸弹不会解放人们。”
安萨里说，在中间的某个地方还有另一个团体，希望这场战争将把这个国家引向“正确的方向”。
“我们已经在这场战争中。那么能做些什么呢?对此我想了很多，”她说。
最终，安萨里说她希望降级。
她说:“我只想看到过去47年来不得不生活在这个政权下的伊朗人民过上最好的生活。”。
Iran war has caused 'internal strife' within Iranian diaspora: Rep. Ansari
The start of the war in Iran last month brought "a lot of anxiety and mixed feelings" for Rep. Yassamin Ansari, the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress.
"It was a weird feeling of something you knew was going to happen, but the uncertainty of what comes next was quite heavy," Ansari told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl in an interview that aired on Sunday. "I immediately called my parents."
The Arizona congresswoman was born and raised in the U.S. Her parents fled the Iranian regime -- her father was studying in the U.S. and unable to return home in the wake of the 1979 revolution. Her mother came on her own as a teenager.
"Women were losing their rights," Ansari explained. "And my grandfather had been supportive of the monarchy before it fell, and so he was briefly imprisoned. And that's when they decided to send my mom here by herself."
On Feb. 28, the Trump administration launched airstrikes with Israel on Iran and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since the outbreak of war, the U.S. and Israel have continued striking Iran, while Iran has retaliated with missile and drone strikes across the region. The initial strikes followed weeks of growing tensions and U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June.
Ansari said that she had complicated feelings about the war, given her family's history with the Iranian regime and her concerns over the implications of President Donald Trump's military action.
"From the standpoint of somebody who's grown up with wanting to see change in Iran, positive change, a better future for the people of Iran, but in my role as a U.S. congresswoman, knowing very well what we're dealing with in a President Donald Trump, and knowing that there is no plan or clear objectives for what the war is about, [I] had a lot of anxiety and mixed feelings," Ansari said.
The news that Khamenei was killed in the initial strikes brought "a feeling of hope" for Iran's future, Ansari said. But she said her parents also had concerns.
"If this isn't managed carefully, a country of 90 million people could very well fall into civil war. And I think that has been their concern from the beginning, and my concern as well," Ansari said.
Ansari said the ongoing war has "caused a lot of internal strife" within the Iranian diaspora in the U.S.
"There were a lot of debates about whether or not people should be hopeful, what the right thing is to do," Ansari said. "There are many people who feel that there was no other way to weaken this regime than outside military intervention."
She said there's part of the diaspora that supports Trump's military action and another completely opposed.
"They really actually do believe that Donald Trump has a good plan here and has positive intentions, and that's real," she said. "I don't agree with that. There's another camp that I think is very anti-war, and believes that bombs are not going to free people."
There's another group somewhere in the middle, hoping that this war will steer the country in the "right direction," Ansari said.
"We're already in this war. So what can be done? And I've been thinking a lot about that," she said.
Ultimately, Ansari said she wants deescalation.
"I just want to see the best for Iranian people who have had to live under this regime for the last 47 years," she said.
