The United States-Israeli military attacks on Saturday led to mixed reactions from Iranian and Islamic communities across Long Island.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump, Israeli officials and Iranian state media confirmed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the attacks. In response, Iran launched a wave of retaliatory strikes on U.S. and Israel targets across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
As of Saturday night, Iranian state media said at least 200 people were killed in the strikes. The U.S. military reported no American casualties.<\/p>\n
Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral was born in Iran and moved to the United States when he was 14.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m hoping that these current events are going to end up with a regime change that is going to bring peace not only to Iran, but to the entire region,\u201d Bral said.<\/p>\n
He said the conflict overseas really started years ago during the Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember when I was a kid, they were chanting ‘death to America’ way before they started chanting ‘death to Israel,’\u201d Bral said. \u201cThis was just waiting to happen. I know it happened in the past 24 hours, but really it has been brewing for the past many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nayyar Imam, president of the Long Island Muslim Alliance, said nothing positive comes out of war.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going for another war which will not help anybody. So it was not a surprise, but it was very sad and frustrating,\u201d Imam said. \u201cIt\u2019s not even our war. It\u2019s someone else\u2019s war we are fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said violence shouldn\u2019t be the solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf any conflict can be resolved though talk, it\u2019s much better,\u201d said Istafa Naqvi, president of the Suffolk Islamic Center. \u201cYou cannot change it from outside. You can change it from inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Naqvi said his biggest concern is loss of innocent life.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are concerned and everyone is concerned about nuclear weapons,\u201d Naqvi said. \u201cWe pray and we hope that this should be over faster and without having life lost on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States-Israeli military attacks on Saturday led to mixed reactions from Iranian and Islamic communities across Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,153,7946,14670,60,776,5864,774,9,24,63,896,15254,773],"class_list":{"0":"post-148801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-great-neck","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-long-island","16":"tag-muslim","17":"tag-nassau-county","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-president-donald-trump","22":"tag-strike","23":"tag-suffolk-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}