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Friday, July 25, 2014
Iran opposition group denounces Tehran’s Israel policy
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn Iranian opposition group denounces the Islamic Republic’s policies towards Israel and emphasizes that these policies have had a strong role in amplifying tensions in the region.
The Iranian Liberal Students and Graduates assert in their statement that the regime’s policy runs against Iran’s national interests.
This statement was published only a day after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the West Bank to be armed.
The student group condemns both the killing of civilians and the use of children as “human shields” by terrorist groups in Gaza. They also express disappointment that the Islamic Republic’s “harmful foreign policy” would change and call for close relations between the two countries in a “free and democratic Iran” which can help the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinians and reaching a two-state agreement based on the pre-1967 lines.
The opposition group also criticized some anti-Semitic and racist comments posted by Iranian users on social media, stressing that these actions “are not compatible with morality.”
“We hope that one day, we’ll hear the call for freedom, democracy, and peaceful coexistence being transmitted from Iran and the rest of the Middle East instead of violence, war and political Islam,” the statement reads.
The Times of Israel Community.