Iran’s Supreme Leader Endorses Campus Protests, Says They’re Part Of ‘Resistance Front’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei praised pro-Palestinian protestors across American college campuses for being “on the right side of history” in an open letter to university students Wednesday.

Khamenei said college protestors “have begun an honorable struggle” against the American government which “openly supports Zionists” in a X post on Wednesday. He also encouraged American students to “become familiar with the Quran” in another X post.

“You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure—a government which openly supports the usurper and brutal Zionist regime,” Khameini wrote in the open letter.

“The greater Resistance Front which shares the same understandings and feelings that you have today, has been engaged in the same struggle for many years in a place far from you,” he continued. “The goal of this struggle is to put an end to the blatant oppression that the brutal Zionist terrorist network has inflicted on the Palestinian nation for many years. After seizing their country, the Zionist regime has subjected them to the harshest of pressures and tortures.”