'Freedom of other' absent in US leadership's mindsets: Iran Foreign Ministry
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the longstanding habit of "looting and coercion" in the United States has made the American leaders refrain from recognizing the right of freedom for others.
"Yrs of looting & coercion prove FREEDOM OF OTHER lacked in the US successive leadership's mindsets," the ministry said in a post on its official Twitter account on Saturday.
It added that the administration of US President Donald Trump has made "horrible reactions to peaceful protests" across the country, adding that the reactions remind the world of "the very scandalous history."
The ministry emphasized that the Juneteenth "is a high time to decry the US 'humans new slavery' at home & beyond."
On Friday, thousands marched through US cities in Juneteenth observances marking the abolition of slavery more than a century and a half ago, an occasion freighted with special resonance this year amid America’s reckoning with its legacy of racism.
Capping nearly four weeks of protests and national soul-searching aroused by the death of a Black man, George Floyd, under the knee of a white police officer, demonstrators took to the streets from Atlanta to Oakland, California, blending the Juneteenth holiday with calls for racial justice.
Juneteenth, a portmanteau of June and 19th, commemorates the US abolition of slavery under President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, belatedly announced by a Union army in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, after the Civil War ended.
In a tweet also on Friday, Trump warned of a crackdown on “any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes" who show up at his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday, suggesting any demonstrators would be dealt with harshly.
“Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted. “It will be a much different scene!”
Trump’s threat comes as he continues to attack people who have been protesting against police brutality and racism in the United States since the police killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25.
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