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Iran’s Supreme Leader on Floyd Killing: ‘US Been Doing Same Thing to World for Years’

American unrest represents the “eruption of truths,” says Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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June 7, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009. REUTERS/Caren Firouz//File Photo

The ongoing protests in the United States over the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis are an “eruption of truths that have always been hidden,” according to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In an address that aired on Iran’s Channel 1 on June 3, Khamenei said that just as officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck while Floyd lay face down in the street, handcuffed, so had America done to Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the entire world.

This, said Khamenei, was America’s nature.

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