OPINION: ‘Islamic Republic of Iran’ sides with pro-Palestinian students, for obvious reasons
A handful of campus police leaders will need to give up on any dreams of vacationing in Tehran soon.
Iran released sanctions on July 4 against “American individuals for their involvement in violation of human rights by suppressing peaceful protest of university students and professors in the United States who were supporting the oppressed Palestinian nation against the Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza.”
Sanctioned individuals include former University of Florida police chief Linda Stump-Kurnick, University of Texas assistant police chief Shane Streepy, and Indiana University police chief Scott Dunning.
Stump-Kurnick is leaving her role to become the assistant vice president of public safety, student newspaper the Alligator reported.
Arizona State University’s police chief Michael Thompson and California State University Long Beach’s police chief John Brockie also received the honor.
A few other municipal law enforcement officials were also sanctioned by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is an actual theocracy, not the imagined American one that MSNBC and CNN fret about constantly.
The law enforcement leaders violated an Iranian law that surprisingly exists: “Countering the Violation of Human Rights and Adventurous and Terrorist Activities of the United States in the Region.”
And here I thought Iranian law required supporting terrorist activities and violating human rights.
The law prohibits the individuals from investing in Iranian companies or entering the country.
The individuals join a politically diverse group of sanctioned individuals, including former New York Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey Democratic Senator and mentor to T-Bone, Cory Booker.
Giuliani has been sanctioned several times by Iran. Booker and Giulani were sanctioned in 2022, along with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, for attending an event hosted by an Iranian group that supports “regime change,” The Hill reported in 2022.
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