Thousands of people gathered Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles' Westwood neighborhood to revel in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes earlier this weekend with expectations the turn of events will soon result in a free Iran.

The rally took place at the Westwood Federal Building and was staged by what The Los Angeles Times called residents of Los Angeles’ "massive Persian diaspora." 

Many at the demonstration were draped in American, Israeli or Iranian flags. Some wore green hats that said, “Make Iran Great Again,” also according to the newspaper.

A Fox News Channel reporter described the event on X as a "HUGE Pro-USA, Pro-Iran, Pro-Israel celebratory demonstration."

Demonstrators reportedly chanted “free Iran” and danced in closed-off streets.

“We’re thrilled,” demonstrator Shawn Araghi, who left Iran as an 8-year-old when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was ousted in 1979, told The Times. “Most people think Iranians are the same as the regime. The people are way different than the regime. They couldn't care less about the people. That’s why they’re killing them left and right.”

The greater Los Angeles area is home to the largest concentration of people of Iranian descent outside Iran and has served as a capital for exiles since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the newspaper also reports.