( NYPost )
An Iranian college is offering free tuition to US students expelled for taking part in anti-Israel protests, as a professor there called them “our people” who would support Iran in a war with America.
The head of Shiraz University, located in the southern region of Fars, made the scholarship proposal on state-run TV while discussing the widespread wave of protests on college campuses across the US.
“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, as well as Fars Province, are also prepared,” Mohammad Moazzeni told Iranian state-owned Press TV.
The offer came as the NYPD cuffed more than 280 anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia University and City College of New York campuses in a massive operation that Mayor Eric Adams blamed on “outside agitators” trying to radicalize students.
Similar scenes have rocked campuses across the US, with riot cops using tear gas to stop violence at the University of California, Los Angeles, early Thursday.
A professor at the University of Tehran said Iran was thrilled to see such uprisings — because pro-terror students would likely support Iran if it went to war.
“These [American students] are our people,” Professor Foad Izadi said, according to MEMRI TV.
“If tensions between America and Iran rise tomorrow or the day after, these are the people who will have to take to the streets to support Iran.”
“Sooner or later, this kind of support for the Zionist regime by the American regime will diminish. It might not stop completely, but its diminishing is important,” Izadi continued.
“This is why the demonstrations [on US campuses] are important.”
The professor — who earned his master’s degree from the University of Houston, according to the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy — went on to claim that support for the Palestinians wouldn’t be what it is if it weren’t for Iran.
“We are watching the demonstrations and like what we see, but it should not end with this,” Izadi said.
“If not for the Islamic Republic, the case of the Palestinian idea would have been closed years ago. The idea of resistance belongs to Iran, but on the operational level, when it comes to recruiting connections and building networks, the [Iranian] state has not been involved in a sufficient level.”
It comes after wild scenes have erupted nationwide as various anti-Israel tent encampments have popped up at college campuses.
In addition to the NYPD crackdown at Columbia and CCNY late Tuesday, hundreds of helmeted cops muscled their way into an encampment at the University of California at Los Angeles early Thursday to clear out protesters.