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“It changes nothing about the fact that Mr. Raisi was engaged in reprehensible conduct, including repressing his own people for many years as a judge and then as president,” Blinken said.

“And now they are vociferously arguing in favor of repressing students’ free speech rights.”

“This whole dynamic would not be possible if the main body responsible for repressing the actions of these groups was not complicit in the scheme.”

U.S. intelligence specifically attributed it to an Afghanistan-based affiliate known as ISIS-K, which is known to despise Putin’s Russia for repressing Muslims in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

With that sort of training, he said, “ we’re not really creating an effective police force that is representing the people — we’re creating an effective police force that is effective at repressing dissent.”