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Iran: Violent crackdown will not silence pro-Palestine protesters in US
Saturday, 27 April 2024 8:29 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 27 April 2024 8:31 AM ]
Mounted police were mobilised against demonstrators protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza at the University of Texas at Austin, on April 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations office in Geneva has categorically censured the ongoing crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrations across US universities, stressing that violence against peaceful protesters will not silence them.
With Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip having passed the 200th-day mark, major American universities have been the scene of clashes between students and police officers amid intensifying protests in condemnation of the regime’s war on the besieged territory.
More than 20 universities in the US are protesting against the war, where upwards of 34,000 people have since October last year been killed, including women and children.
The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing the occupying regime’s war on Gaza.
Police have arrested hundreds of protesters across university campuses.
“We strongly condemn the brutal and violent crackdown on widespread peaceful pro-Palestinian protests at universities in the United States. The US Police brutality and excessive use of force during peaceful assemblies, and targeting students advocating for an end to genocidal war in Gaza is a matter of serious concern,” Iran’s permanent mission in Geneva said in a post on its X social media account on Saturday.
“Demonstrators are precisely calling for ending the US complicity in ongoing Genocide in Gaza in their name. Firing and beating peaceful protesters does not silence them, who are the frontline human rights defenders, it only reaffirms the urgency of the struggle for justice for Palestine,” the mission added.
“Police attacks against university students and professors, the scale of arrests and the conditions of detentions is deeply disturbing and we call for the release of all detained.”
The United States has been providing Israel with unrestrained military, intelligence and financial support since October 7, when the regime unleashed the war against the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Washington gives Israel $3.8bn in military assistance every year, and US President Joe Biden has continued to provide staunch support to the illegal entity amid the Gaza war. On Wednesday, Biden signed into law a massive funding package that will provide an additional $17bn to the occupying regime.
Washington has also vetoed several United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the brutal military aggression.
Last week, a group of United Nations experts said 80 percent of schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed since the war began in early October. Nearly 5,500 students have been killed, alongside 261 teachers and 95 university professors.
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Iran: US lacks competence to comment on human rights, freedom of expression
Friday, 26 April 2024 3:54 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 26 April 2024 4:53 PM ]
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani
American officials do not have the moral competence to make any comment about human rights, rights of women and the freedom of expression, the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry says.
Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks in a post on his X account on Friday as spiraling protests have spread across universities in the United States to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel’s genocidal war has so far killed more than 34,300 people.
Kan’ani posted a video showing US police using violence against a university professor protesting Israel’s criminal acts against Palestinians.
“The unfortunate images of the violent behavior of the American police against pro-Palestine university professors protesting the US policy of supporting the criminal Zionist regime has exposed to global judgment the gap between the US administration’s slogans and actions,” the Iranian spokesperson emphasized.
Pro-Palestinian academic activism has grown significantly across the US since the onset of the US-backed war on Gaza.
At least 34,356 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed and 77,368 people wounded in the war that Israel began on October 7, 2023 following a retaliatory operation by the Palestinian territory’s resistance movements.
The brutal military onslaught enjoys unreserved military and intelligence support on the part of the US. Washington has also vetoed several United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the war.
American authorities have come down hard on the student protests.
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The “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave”. Where is “America’s Model Democracy”
Global Research, January 13, 2020
Region: USA
Theme: History
Three years into the presidential administration of Donald Trump, one might ask if he has kept his commitment to ‘Make America Great Again’. These four words, comprising his 2016 campaign slogan, are based on the false premise that the United States was ever ‘great’, which can be defined as “of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average.” We will look at a few facts.
- The early colonists exploited the Native Americans in savage ways. This resulted in one of the largest genocides in world history, and the oppression of the descendants of those who survived continues to this day.
BIG BROTHER in the 21. Century 