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The Supreme Leader of Iran has thanked US college students for joining his country’s ‘resistance’ movement against Israel and the United States with their recent spate of campus protests.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted a message on X directed at Americans on college campuses. ‘Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history,’ it read.
‘You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure – which openly supports Zionists.’ Furthermore, in an open letter published Thursday, Khamenei again addressed US students, this time to say: ‘This is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.’
He added that the newfound ‘resistance front’ is confronting ‘the global Zionist elite – who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery,’ implementing a common, ugly anti-Semitic trope.
The backing of the student protestors, many of whom disrupted campus life for weeks-on-end prompted some schools to go so far as to cancel their commencement ceremonies for graduating classes, is a ‘significant and consequential development,’ wrote Khamenei.
‘I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance,’ he wrote, before making the recommendation that the US students he’s identified ‘become familiar with the Quran.’ The Ayatollah’s shocking endorsement stunned many and has caused some to wonder how familiar student protestors are with the Supreme Leader’s abhorrent human rights track record.
Just this month, Iran executed three men who participated in anti-government protests, adding to the four who have already been hanged since late last year as part of the regime’s barbaric response to demonstrations against the Islamic Republic. In response to the messages of support for anti-Israel demonstrators, House Speaker Mike Johnson simply wrote: ‘When you’ve won the Ayatollah, you’ve lost America.’
Representative Mike Waltz, a US Army Green Beret, pointed out that the regime killed 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini for failing to wear a hijab. ‘When the Ayatollah tells you that you’re on the right side of history, know that you’re standing with her murderers,’ he wrote.
Representative Brian Mast of Texas, who lost both of his legs fighting for his country, wrote: ‘If the Ayatollah of Iran is praising you, you are definitely on the wrong side of history.’ ‘If you woke up this morning and found yourself being praised by the Ayatollah, maybe you aren’t the good guy in the fight,’ wrote an account called Millennial Politics, which claims to be run by ‘pragmatic progressives.’
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