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Wisconsin Senate Candidate Mandela Barnes Celebrated Iranian Leader’s 2015 BLM Tweet

Mandela Barnes took a tweet from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei slamming the America’s handling of racial issues on New Year’s Day 2015 to be a good omen.

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Wisconsin Senate Candidate Mandela Barnes Celebrated Iranian Leader’s 2015 BLM Tweet
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“the issue of US govt oppression against blacks is a 100s year-old issue #BlackLivesMatter 395 Years a Slave!”

Barnes liked the tweet and replied, “The first tweet of 2015 from @khamenei_ir is #BlackLivesMatter. Let that sink in. May This be a most wonderful year for you and yours.”
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Khamenei has boasted that “It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region,” and called its “Zionist Regime” a “cancerous tumor.” He’s also suggested that “the Holocaust is an event whose reality is uncertain and if it has happened, it’s uncertain how it has happened.”

Prior to the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, around 80,000 Jews were believed to have lived in Iran. Now, estimates peg the country’s Jewish population at 8,500.
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Barnes has previously expressed support for redirecting law enforcement funding away from the police and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he currently trails Johnson by 2.8 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

Mandela Barnes for Wisconsin Governor

Having served Wisconsin in our state legislature and as our Lieutenant Governor, I’ll be ready to stand up to Trump to bring down costs and keep our communities safe on day one.

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