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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iranian-professor-slammed-for-pro-Israel-tweet-557715
Iranian Professor Questions Government Stance toward Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Samuel Thrope - Sadegh Zibakalam, a political science professor at the University of Tehran, sparked outrage in the Iranian media with a tweet that questioned the government's stance toward Israel. "If, God forbid, there is a war between us and Israel, we will have to tell future generations why we fought a war with a country 2,000 km. away that never threatened us or had any other dispute with us," he wrote on May 10. "What were all those casualties and the billions of dollars in military expenditures for?" Responding to criticism, Zibakalam wrote Wednesday: "I have a simple question: Who gave us the responsibility for destroying Israel? Have the Iranian people held a referendum and asked the government to do this?"