This is not encouraging, but it makes perfect sense. And it's a smart play by Iran.
There's a disaffected segment of the U.S. population that is eager to settle scores, whether imagined or real. We saw that in the riots. And we see it in popular movements like Black Lives Matter. And now Iran is trying to tap into that disaffection. See Iran Hosts Conference on ‘Police Brutality Against Blacks in America’:
October 27, 2015 5:08 pm
Iran is hosting a three-day conference this week focusing on “police brutality against blacks in America,” according to the event announcement. ...
“In the U.S. whose president is now a black person, the black people are oppressed, disrespected and humiliated, and such behavior has provided the ground for unrests too,” the supreme leader was quoted as saying in April by the state-controlled Fars news agency.
Talebzadeh labeled the conference the “beginning of a cultural revolution and resistance and an international model for public diplomacy.” Another conference organizer, Reza Montazami, likened the treatment of blacks by law enforcement in America to the way in which the “Zionist regime” treats Palestinians in Israel.
“Israeli and American forces are working together. It is evident that the way police treat blacks is identical to the treatment of Palestinians by the Zionist regime in Israel,” Montazami said. “It is my belief that Americans should consider it imperative to start making their own decisions and not allow the Zionists to interfere in important intellectual matters.”
Last month, the Telegraph reported that Iran was reaching out to families of blacks fatally shot by police and inviting them to the so-called anti-discrimination conference.
Hopefully, our intelligence people are paying attention to the attendees from the U.S. It would be nice if the U.S. had courted some of the Iranian dissidents back when they were near revolt. But that appears to have been a lost opportunity.
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