Iran’s Supreme Leader has thanked American students for joining his country’s “resistance movement” against Israel and the United States with its recent wave of campus protests.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted a message on X addressed to Americans on college campuses.
“Dear college students in the United States of America, you are on the right side of history,” it read.
“You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and started an honorable struggle, despite the relentless pressure from your government – which openly supports the Zionists.”
Further into an open letter Published Thursday, Khamenei again addressed American students, this time to say: “This is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history turns, you are on the right side of it.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (pictured) has expressed support for US university protesters demonstrating against Israel, saying they are on the right side of history.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the students, who have made life on university campuses untenable in recent months, have become a new “resistance front” of his movement against the “global Zionist elite.”
He added that the newfound “resistance front” is confronting “the global Zionist elite – which owns or influences most American and European media companies through financing and bribery,” creating a common, ugly anti-Semitic trope implements.
The support of the student protesters, many of whom disrupted campus life for weeks, has prompted some schools to go so far as to cancel their commencement ceremonies for graduating classes, is an “important and consequential development,” Khamenei wrote.
“I am also among those who empathize with you, young people, and appreciate your perseverance,” he wrote, before recommending that the American students he identified “become familiar with the Quran.”
The ayatollah’s shocking approval has stunned many and led some to wonder how familiar student protesters are with the Supreme Leader’s abhorrent human rights record.
Just this month, Iran executed three men who took part in anti-government protests, adding to the four hanged since late last year as part of the regime’s barbaric response to demonstrations against the Islamic Republic.
The ayatollah’s shocking approval has stunned many and led some to wonder how familiar student protesters are with the Supreme Leader’s abhorrent human rights record.
In response to the outpouring of support for anti-Israel protesters, House Speaker Mike Johnson simply wrote, “If you won the Ayatollah, you lost America.”
Representative Mike Waltz, a US Army Green Beret, pointed out that the regime killed 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini because she was not wearing a hijab.
“When the Ayatollah tells you that you are on the right side of history, know that you are on the side of its murderers,” he wrote.
Rep. Brian Mast of Texas, who lost both 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 to find yourself being praised by the Ayatollah, you may not be the good guy in the fight,” wrote a report called Millennial Politics, which claims to be led by “pragmatic progressives.”