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Why Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thugs

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Iman Dashti, a Michigan University student, confronted Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed this week about his habitual whitewashing and rationalization of Islamic terrorism.

Dashti, who said his family is a victim of the Iranian regime’s theocratic persecution, pressed the candidate at a college town hall, asking him numerous times to denounce one of the world’s most odious tyrannies.

Did El-Sayed regret not speaking out against the tyrannical clerics of Iran?

Would he now renounce those who held vigils supporting the mass murderer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Would he “unequivocally” condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a group that’s not only tortured, imprisoned and killed tens of thousands of Iranian civilians in the past year but is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans?

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The answer was no, no and no: El-Sayed wouldn’t.

Rather, the candidate offered a platitudinous word salad on how the United States should avoid becoming “the world’s policeman” and how we can still stand “in solidarity with freedom and democracy movements.”

Dashti didn’t........

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