Iranian professor makes chilling prediction about American college students ... trends now

An Iranian academic claims pro-Palestine protesters holed up in American universities would support Iran in a war with the US.

Tehran University Professor Foad Izadi declared 'these are our people' in an interview with Iranian state TV station IRIB Ofogh on April 26.

He said Iran's brutal Islamic dictatorship, which he referred to himself as part of, was cheering on the protests from coast to coast in the US.

Hundreds of cops on Tuesday night cleared protesters out of Columbia University in New York City, and the next night police hit the UCLA encampment.

Dozens of other universities have tent cities of students and outside agitators squatting on lawns and refusing to leave, some of whom were evicted by police in ugly clashes with hundreds arrested.

Izadi also claimed in the interview, translated and posted online by the Middle East Research Institute, that Iran had Hezbollah-like militant cells hiding in the US.

'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,' he said.

'We are watching the demonstrations and like what we see, but it should not end with this.'

Izadi tried to take credit for Iran keeping 'the Palestinian idea' alive, claiming it would have 'closed years ago' if not for the Iranian regime. 

'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,' he said.

The professor then made his boldest claim - that the students and other protesters would support Iran over their own country if there was ever conflict. 

'These are our people,' he said.

'If tensions between America and Iran rise tomorrow or the day after, these are the people who will have to take to

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