There's two ways to think about this.
First, at the level of broad partisan alignment, the diaspora & Iran are closer than they used to be. The old story about wealthy “LA monarchists” as outliers doesn’t hold anymore, especially after the scale of recent migration out of Iran.
What makes neo-Pahlavism interesting is how often it inversely correlates with class, especially inside Iran. To the extent that any ideology is disproportionately popular in the diaspora, it's the left.
