Iran Condemns Brutality Against African-Americans
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2 May 28, 2020 DOMESTIC NEWS Iran Condemns Brutality Against African-Americans Kayhan Group of Newspapers The idolaters have no right to visit the mosques of Allah while bearing witness to unbe- Editorial Dept. Tel.: 33911561, 33110251-9 lief against themselves, Ext.: 2334, 2336, 2337 these it is whose doings Advertising Dept.: 33110251-9 Ext. 2336 are null, and in the fire Subscription Ext.: 2322 shall they abide. Facsimile: 33114228 & 33111120 The Holy Qur’an (9.17) Website: www.kayhan.ir/en E-mail: [email protected] PRAYER TIMINGS P.O. Box: 11365/9631 Noon (Zohr) 13:02 Address: Martyr Shah Cheraghi Street, Ferdowsi Avenue, Evening(Maghreb) 20:33 Tehran – Islamic Republic of Iran Dawn(Fajr)“ Tomorrow” 04:08 Sunrise “Tomorrow” 05:51 In the Name of the Most High decade afterwards, the U.S. began Viewpoint planting its jackboot far more firm- ly in the region by invading Iraq in 2003, a wholesale war that turned A U.S. police officer is seen kneeling on the neck of handcuffed George Floyd who died after pleading he could not breathe. the country into a scene of rampant Another Brutal Racist TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Iran on taken by ambulance to hospital States for honoring the military per- violence. Wednesday strongly condemned po- where he died a short time later, po- sonnel who have died while serving Nevertheless, Washington has Murder in ‘Trumpland’ lice brutality in the U.S. amid fresh lice said. in the U.S. armed forces. never fallen short of finding excuses outcry over the killing of a hand- Nekima Levy-Armstrong, a promi- America’s history of armed incur- to militarily intervene in the region By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer cuffed black man who died after a nent local activist, said watching the sions is as old as the country, whose along with its allies white officer knelt on his neck for sev- footage that was shared on social very foundation is owed to the dead- The most recent bout of U.S.-led When the head of the state happens to be a self-confessed racist with a penchant for lies and operations in the Middle East came a sadistic attitude towards crimes his officials commit against people of colour and migrants, eral minutes. media made her “sick to her stom- ly invasion of North American ter- coupled with his bloody record of terrorism abroad, can anyone expect social justice and re- George Floyd died in Minneapolis ach” and she said it’s another exam- ritories. in 2014, when the United States and spect for humanitarian values in such a country? on Monday after being pinned down ple of police brutality toward African Across modern history, U.S. milita- its allies began a military campaign Certainly not, is the answer, and for the umpteenth time this was proven in Trumpland, when by a white officer despite yelling: “I American men, the Star Tribune re- rism has most notably been reflected in Iraq and Syria under the guise of last Monday night an Afro-American citizen acclaimed for his gentle behaviour towards all cannot breathe.” ported. in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), uprooting Daesh, which had risen while working as a security guard at a restaurant (currently closed due to the coronavirus pan- The killing reminded of Eric Gar- On Tuesday, protesters took to the which is bitterly brought to the fore amid the chaos resulting from Wash- demic), was brutally killed by white US police officers in Minneapolis for no apparent fault. ington’s own wars in the region. George Floyd who was sitting in his car was suddenly grabbed by the police on mere sus- ner, an unarmed New York man who streets where Floyd died, with some on the Memorial Day. Estimates of picion of forgery, handcuffed, thrown on the ground, and choked to death by a white officer died in 2014 after he was placed in a chanting and carrying banners that the fatalities resulting from the war Washington has, throughout its with sadistic pleasure in the most brutal way in front of several people shocked at the ongoing chokehold by police and pleaded for read “I can’t breathe.” go as high as 4.2 million people, in- history, also been lending immense daylight murder. his life saying he couldn’t breathe. A Police-involved shootings and kill- cluding 58,209 U.S. forces. political and military support to the As shown by a bystander’s video, the white police officer is seen kneeling on the 46-year-old grand jury later decided against in- ings of unarmed black men in the In what has become the longest war regional regimes that are responsi- black person’s neck and pressing the victim with force even though the latter is pleading that ble for killing and displacing tens he cannot breathe. dicting the officers involved, spark- hands of white police officers have in its history, the U.S. along with its ing protests around the country. led to mass protests across the coun- allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 of thousands of people in pursuit of Floyd, whose cries for help echoed public response but had no effect on the hard-hearted their political agendas. white police officers, finally stopped moving and was pronounced dead after being taken to “6 yrs after ‘I can’t breathe’ pleas of try in recent years and the formation as part of a so-called war on terror. hospital. Eric Garner, #GeorgeFloyd, another of the Black Lives Matter movement. The invasion — which is still under- The latest act of racist murder by the US police immediately drew comparisons to the case black man, dies after a cruel, inhu- Separately, Iran’s Foreign Ministry way — toppled the Taliban regime of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died in 2014 in New York after he was placed in a mane arrest. It seems that U.S. #Po- lashed out at the U.S. government but the Afghan group’s militancy re- chokehold by police and pleaded for his life, saying he could not breathe. Official Monday’s murder in Minneapolis is neither the first instance of police brutality in the US liceBrutality against blacks knows for the belligerent policies that have mains resilient to this day. The chaos and neither will be the last such crime in a country where over the past four years at least 2.5 no boundaries. And as always, the re- killed 100,000 American soldiers has also led to the rise of Daesh, the million hate-motivated crimes have taken place. sponse to calls for justice, is employ- and led to massive destruction and world’s most notorious terror outfit, Blasts ‘Inhuman According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which interviews tens of thousands ing even more force,” Iran’s Foreign atrocities. in the Asian state. of Americans annually, targeting of non-white ethnicities is on the rise, with black people Ministry said in a Twitter message. “Regretful that 100k American According to the latest figures, Sanctions’ on being the main victims followed by Latinos and immigrants, most of whom do not report the Video shared online from a by- soldiers killed in battles waged be- over 2,400 U.S. military deaths have discrimination against them for fear of further brutal behaviour by the police and the white supremacists. stander showed a white officer kneel- cause of U.S. leaders’ instrumental been recorded in the war, while over Syria ing on Floyd’s neck during his arrest. rationality & insatiable greed,” the 20,000 American service members The survey notes that of late, ever since Donald Trump’s taking over of the presidency, the TEHRAN (Dispatches) – A cultural and political divisiveness in the US sharply increased, emboldening more people to Police have said the man, believed ministry said in a post on its Twitter have been wounded. senior Iranian diplomat on express intolerance toward minorities, while most of the targets often keep silent. to be in his 40s, was ordered to step account on Tuesday. More than 100,000 Afghans have It is worth recalling that some two years ago, during an official meeting Trump had openly from his car but after he got out, he “U.S. war machines have just led to also been killed or wounded since Wednesday denounced the “ille- insulted the black-skinned people and their countries of origin as “shitholes”. physically resisted officers. killing, destruction, atrocities,” it said, 2009, when the UN Assistance Mis- gal and inhuman sanctions” that So obscene were his words that several countries as well as the UN took strong objections to have been unilaterally imposed his vile and vulgar language. “Officers were able to get the sus- adding that the time has come to stand sion in Afghanistan began docu- pect into handcuffs and noted he ap- against the “U.S. violence and war- menting casualties. on Syria, calling for efforts to Although without the least doubt the shameless Trump is a racist/terrorist thug, racism has help the Syrian people amid the been an integral part of US history and is enshrined as state policy, both in domestic affairs peared to be suffering medical dis- mongering as remembering millions Washington’s first major incursion coronavirus outbreak. and in international relations to the extent that genocide has always been practiced by Wash- tress,” police spokesman John Elder of lost lives” on the Memorial Day. in the Middle East came in the form Ali-Asghar Khaji made the ington beginning with the extermination of most native Amerindian ‘redskin’ tribes who dared has said. Memorial Day, marked on May of the Persian Gulf War in the early remarks as he discussed the lat- to oppose the white man’s encroachment upon their homelands.