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Iran and Turkey seek to support riots in the US
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Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted that “if you’re dark-skinned
walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
MAY 30, 2020 16:33
Iran and Turkey 520
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Regimes based in Turkey and Iran both sought to exploit and
support violent protests in the US over the weekend. Turkey is one of the
world’s largest jailors of journalists and Iran’s government murdered 1,500
protesters last year, but leaders in both countries cynically sought to exploit
recent protests in the US for their own ends.
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted that “if you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you
can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”
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Former Iranian president, and Holocaust denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that the
killing of George Floyd, the African-American man who was killed by police in
Minneapolis, was “deeply disturbing and upsetting’ and that it was part of a
plot by world powers and the “current world order.”
He even used the word “nigga” in his tweet, apparently trying to
make his tweet seem relevant to Americans.
It is not clear who writes the tweets for Ahmadinejad and
Khamenei in English, some of them appear to be taken more from college
activists in the US than from the usual terminology of the Iranian regime,
which is a theocratic regime with a long history of suppressing minorities and
murdering protesters.
Even as Iran’s regime was supporting the protests in the US,
which turned violent in many cities over the weekend, the regime in Tehran was
gunning down peaceful Kurdish “kolbars” or people who move goods across the
border.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is known for
ethnically cleansing Kurds in northern Syria and whose army carried out a drone
strike that killed two civilians on Saturday in Iraq, also supported the US
protests.
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He called the US “racist and fascist” and said that the US city
of Minneapolis behavior was the result of a “painful manifestation of the
unjust order we stand against across the world.”
Both Ahmadinejad and Erdogan referenced the need to stand
against this “world order” which is apparently a reference to working together
against the US.
Erdogan also said that Turkey condemns he “inhuman mentality” in
the US and that Turkey stands against all attacks targeting humanity.
Despite these claims, Turkey launched an invasion of Syria last
year that resulted in the widespread persecution of Kurds in Tel Abyad,
including the lynching of Hevrin Khalaf, a young female Kurdish activist.
Over the weekend Kurdish and Yazidi women were found being held
in a secret prison run by Turkish-backed Syrian rebel extremists in Syria.
Almost every week in Turkey journalists and activists are arrested.
Turkey claimed that it hoped that “perpetrators of this
inhuman act shall receive the punishment they deserve” and that Turkey would be
monitoring America. Ankara’s comments are in contrast to how the US State
Department does not critique Turkey for its widespread human rights abuses are
mass detention of journalists and oppression of Kurdish municipalities.
Turkey has recently sought to jail and remove more opposition
mayors in Kurdish areas. Ankara carries out drone strikes regularly killing
civilians in Iraq, even bombing refugee camps. In May 2017 Erdogan’s body
guards attacked peaceful protesters in Washington, DC.
Yet Turkey’s regime media has now been celebrating the protests
and looting in the US over weekend. It is in contrast to how Turkey’s
pro-government calls any protesters or dissidents in Turkey “terrorists.”
The decision by Turkey and Iran to involve themselves in the
current protests in the US is part of a process of these regimes seeking to
adopt a “progressive” face abroad, usually in English language tweets or video
via their state media, the diametric opposite of what the regime does at home.
The same Iranian regime that killed more than 1,500 protesters
last year, pretends to stand in sympathy with protesters in the US.
The same Tehran regime that suppresses minorities at home speaks
up for them abroad. The same Erdogan who tweets about Floyd doesn’t mention the
thousands of minorities persecuted in Turkey, the jailed journalists or those
like Hevrin Khalaf who were murdered during Turkey’s invasion of Syria.
The disingenuous comments by Ankara and Tehran and their use of
the term “world order” appear to be a form of similar messaging that represents
a view that Iran and Turkey could work together increasingly against the US and
to reduce the US role in the world.
In the past the Muslim Brotherhood, which influences the leading
party in Ankara, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, met in 2014
in Turkey to coordinate efforts in the Middle East.
When Erdogan said that there is an “unjust order we stand
against across the world” and Ahmadinejad wrote that there is a “current world
order which we all must unite against,” either their similar tweets were
written by the same person or this talking point is being circulated in Ankara
and Tehran as a way to exploit the protests to confront the US.
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