Iran Hosts Conference on ‘Police Brutality Against Blacks in America’

Morgan Chalfant, freebeacon.com

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Iran is hosting a three-day conference this week focusing on “police brutality against blacks in America,” according to the event announcement.

Foreign Desk reported that the event’s organizer, Nader Talebzadeh, told an Iranian news outlet that he had extended invitations to the conference to 30 “anti-Israel blacks” from the United States. He said that the conference, beginning Monday, would feature “human rights defenders” and “social activists.”

“Blacks in America are the only group who utilize their right to protest, and Iran is the perfect place to host them and to initiate a direct relationship with this segment of the American population,” Talebzadeh said.

“This will be the start of a relationship based on culture, diplomacy, and revolution. We hope to serve as an international example,” Talebzadeh explained, noting that the treatment of African Americans at the hands of police is important to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei has previously accused U.S. law enforcement of using “cruel might” against blacks.

“In the U.S. whose president is now a black person, the black people are oppressed, disrespected and humiliated, and such behavior has provided the ground for unrests too,” the supreme leader was quoted as saying in April by the state-controlled Fars news agency.

Talebzadeh labeled the conference the “beginning of a cultural revolution and resistance and an international model for public diplomacy.” ...