An Iran university is offering scholarships to students in the United States and Europe who have been expelled for participating in anti-Israel demonstrations.
“Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University, and I think that other universities in Shiraz and Fars province are prepared to do the same,” Shiraz University President Mohammad Moreno announced on Wednesday, as cited by Press TV.
According to the Iranian state-owned news outlet, Moreno made the comments during a gathering of several Iranian universities in support of the recent global anti-Israel campus protests. In the US alone, over a thousand student Hamas supporters have been arrested at leading colleges in an attempt to stop the nearly two weeks of nationwide antisemitic protests.
“They exert a lot of violence in order to contain this raging movement and have even threatened to expel the students from universities and hinder their employment in the future, and such autocratic methods show the decline of global arrogance,” Moreno said.
As per Axios, a heavy police presence remained at Columbia University on Wednesday night, after NYPD officers in riot gear cleared out the illegal tent encampment made by pro-Hamas supporters on campus. Dozens of arrests were made during the police raid, including those who participated in vandalizing Hamilton Hall. Meanwhile, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), police officers dressed in riot gear arrived in response to an anti-Israel rally that had escalated into violence. Fifteen people were reportedly injured during the protest with one individual requiring hospitalization.
