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The destruction wrought by the Southern California wildfires elicited mixed reactions from Iran, where Western cliches about a monolithic theocratic elite rarely survive scrutiny. The administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian, a relative moderate, offered assistance to the United States, while the U.S.-bashing hardliners, including senior clerics and conspiracy theorists, savored God’s wrath against a “godless” superpower in decline. More striking than the divisions playing out in Tehran was the incongruity of sentiments in the “Little Iran” in Los Angeles, which hosts the largest community of Iranians outside Iran. There, the...