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Iran Celebrates Pro-Palestinian Protests at U.S. Colleges
(Newsweek) Tom O'Connor - Iranian leaders have been staunchly supporting the pro-Palestinian protest movement at U.S. universities. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi hailed "the uprising of Western students, professors and elites in support of the oppressed people of Gaza" during a cabinet meeting Sunday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said Monday that "what we have witnessed in American universities in recent days shows...the depth of public hatred toward the crimes of the usurping Zionist regime." The latest U.S. State Department human rights report published last week noted how "the [Iranian] government severely restricted freedoms of peaceful assembly and association." It accused Iranian authorities of responding violently to peaceful gatherings, including those associated with the 2022 wave of demonstrations in which hundreds of protesters were killed in Iran and thousands more arrested.