May 10, 2024
Students at many Iranian universities have launched sit-ins in support of Gaza since US campuses have been raided by police and protesters arrested there. Some of the students in Iran have held aloft signs that are entirely in English, as seen here.
The Islamic Republic has made a huge issue of the US campus raids, saying they are proof that President Biden is no supporter of human rights and that Americans are just hypocrites when they lecture others about freedom of speech. No mention is made of the regime’s long history of suppressing student protests.
