Iran supreme leader takes to Twitter to criticise US over prevailing race issues
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to social networking site Twitter to criticise US on race issues using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.
According to The Guardian, in a stream of comments on his English-language Twitter feed, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday returned to a theme he has repeatedly struck since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in Missouri on 9 August.
In his tweets, he compared the Ferguson shooting with the Palestinian struggle in Gaza.
His tweet read: "#Jesus endured sufferings to oppose tyrants who had put humans in hell in this world and the hereafter while he backed the oppressed. #Ferguson."
Another of his tweets posted on the eve Christmas said: "If #Jesus were among us today he wouldn't spare a second to fight the arrogants and support the oppressed.#Ferguson #Gaza.