Third time this week I've seen Iranian citizens overtly refuse to dishonor the U.S. & Israeli flags, defying the diktat of the murderous Ayatollah Khamenei regime. These men and women are the great hope for a Middle East of peace and tolerance. The free world must support them.
First time was on Sunday at Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University:
Second time: Monday, at Sanandaj University in Iran's western Kurdish Province, where students refused to take the stairs upon which a large U.S. flag had been painted:
In Iran, defiance starts with a step. Four years ago, one man led the way where thousands now follow. Professor Sadegh Zibakalam publicly refused to walk over U.S. & Israeli flags painted on the floors of Tehran University. One small step for Iran, one giant leap for mankind.
Regime supporters called him a "traitor" & an "anti-revolutionary." Yet despite living under a regime that tortures dissidents and massacres protesters, courageous Professor Zibakalam did not take down his Instagram video (instagram.com/p/BMbijpaDDli/), and went on TV to defend it.
In the first video of Prof. Zibakalam, he climbs onto a bannister to avoid trampling the U.S. flag painted on the floor of Tehran University. In this video, he pushes away thugs trying to force him to trample the U.S. & Israeli flags in order to exit. This is courage.
For more on the phenomenon of Iranians resisting the indoctrination of hatred — by their refusal to trample the flags of the U.S. & Israel that the Ayatollahs pathologically painted all over Iran's entranceways — see superb article by @GEsfandiari @RFERL: rferl.org/a/iranians-u-s…
