Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – identified for brutally suppressing demonstrations within the Islamic Republic – expressed his help on Wednesday for anti-Israel protesters on US faculty campuses, claiming they’re “on the precise facet of historical past.”
“Expensive college college students in america of America, you’re standing on the precise facet of historical past,” the 85-year-old radical cleric posted on X.
“You have got now fashioned a department of the Resistance Entrance and have begun an honorable wrestle within the face of your authorities’s ruthless strain – which brazenly helps Zionists,” Khamenei added.
Khamenei, the highest-ranking political and spiritual authority within the Islamic Republic of Iran, went on to laud the “help & solidarity” some scholar demonstrators have obtained from “professors” as a “consequential improvement” for the anti-Israel motion.
“I too empathize with you younger folks, and worth your perseverance,” he wrote.
The Islamic fundamentalist dictator then provided some “recommendation” to the scholar protesters.
“Expensive college college students within the US, my recommendation to you is to turn out to be acquainted with the Quran,” Khamenei mentioned.
A United Nations Human Rights Council report, launched in March, discovered that high-level state authorities in Iran, together with Khamenei, “inspired, sanctioned and endorsed violations of human rights” within the regime’s crackdown on widespread protests sparked by the September 2022 demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.
Amini had been arrested for allegedly violating the regime’s strict gown rule for girls, which requires females to put on headscarves.
UN investigators discovered that lots of the regime’s human rights violations associated to the protests amounted to “crimes in opposition to humanity.”
“[A]uthorities on the highest degree of the State, together with the Supreme Chief, senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … participated in, aided and abetted or in any other case contributed to the violations,” the report states.
Since mid-April, more than 1,000 college students have been arrested throughout anti-Israel protests sprawling throughout greater than 25 campuses within the US, from Columbia College in New York to the College of California, Los Angeles.
A number of tent encampments have popped up at Ivy League and state college demonstrations after the primary “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” was born at Columbia final month.
Some Jewish students and faculty say that the tent camp has pressured them off campus for their own safety.
The anti-Israel demonstrators have referred to as for his or her college to divest from the Jewish state.
Some protesters have referred to as for one more “intifada” and have engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of Jewish and pro-Israeli college students and school.
The time period “intifada’’ refers to previous Palestinian uprisings that killed tons of of Israeli troopers and civilians. Th “Second Intifada” — the final widespread revolt — occurred within the early 2000s.
The campus protests have been endorsed in April by Hamas, the fear group accountable for the lethal Oct. 7, 2023, bloodbath in Israel.