DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: It’s not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation. A handful of America’s critics have taken note too, using recent months’ demonstrations and graphic images of police violence to denounce the country at the United Nations’ gathering of world leaders this year.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked the killing of George Floyd, the Black American man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis pressed his knee against his neck even as he repeatedly said he could not breathe. Floyds death, caught on video, set off nationwide protests in support of Black lives.
Rouhani said the scene was reminiscent of Iran’s own experience in its quest for freedom and liberation from domination, and that Iran instantly…