Iranian professor makes chilling prediction about American college students after pro-Palestine rioting: ‘These are our people’

An Iranian academic claims that pro-Palestinian protesters who have taken over American universities would support Iran in a war with the US.

Professor Foad Izadi of the University of Tehran, who was educated in America, declared “these are our people” in an interview with Iranian state television channel IRIB Ofogh on April 26.

He said Iran’s brutal Islamic dictatorship, which he claimed he was part of, welcomed the protests from coast to coast in the US.

Hundreds of officers cleared protesters from Columbia University in New York City on Tuesday evening, and police raided the UCLA encampment the next night. The police presence at protests comes after many became dangerous as students fought each other or took over university buildings.

Izadi also claimed in the interview, translated and posted online by the Middle East Research Institute, that Iran was hiding Hezbollah-like militant cells in the US.

“Sooner or later, this kind of support from the American regime for the Zionist regime will diminish. It may not stop completely, but reducing it is important,” he said.

“We watch the demonstrations and like what we see, but it shouldn’t end there.”

Izadi tried to take credit for Iran keeping “the Palestinian idea” alive, claiming it would have been “closed years ago” if not for the Iranian regime.

“The idea of ​​resistance is part of Iran, but at an operational level, when it comes to recruiting connections and building networks, that’s [Iranian] The state is not involved at a sufficient level,” he said.

The professor then made his boldest claim: the students and other protesters would support Iran over their own country if a conflict ever arose.

“These are our people,” he said.

“If tensions between America and Iran rise tomorrow or the day after, these are the people who will have to take to the streets to support Iran.”

People clutch arms as they gather in the ongoing encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters on the UCLA campus

Dozens of universities like Columbia (pictured) have tent cities of students and outside troublemakers squatting on lawns and refusing to leave

NYPD officers dressed in riot gear have burst through a window of a Columbia University building occupied by dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters to begin clearing them out.

Izadi claimed that with an armed militant group, Iran could do more damage to the US than in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has been causing chaos for decades.

“Personally, I think the potential to repeat in the US what Iran did in Lebanon is much greater,” he said. “Our Hezbollah-like groups in America are much larger than the ones we have in Lebanon.

“American is the Great Satan and our main enemy, but we have hope in these areas.”

Izadi received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Houston and his doctorate from Louisiana State University before returning to Iran.

While at LSU, he completed an externship at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy with a “research project examining the recent objectives and methods of U.S. public diplomacy in Iran.”

His project would “identify institutional processes and players in U.S. public diplomacy initiatives toward Iran and examine how these initiatives fit into the concept of new public diplomacy.”

Students and protesters at the City College of New York also clashed with police Tuesday night as the city cracked down on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on college campuses.

Protesters light flares and shout from inside closed gates at CCNY as hundreds of other demonstrators gather outside

In Houston he won a prize for his paper A Discourse Analysis of American Newspaper Editorials: The Case of Iran’s Nuclear Program.

Izadi regularly posts videos of American university protests, in which he expresses his support for the demonstrators and shoots at the police.

“Press freedom, American style: the demonstration is in support of the Palestinian people and the cameraman was arrested along with more than fifty students,” he wrote on April 26.

When the US Congress passed a bill giving billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, he lashed out in an April 20 post.

‘The Zionist Regime’s Infanticidal Prime Minister: Financial Support for Israel is ‘Defense of Western Civilization’. It’s really the same. The end of Western civilization is the same crime you see in Gaza,” he wrote.