'Blasphemous': 4 reactions to UN, US honoring fallen Iranian president

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., questions U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as he testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Fed's 'Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,' on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C. — Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., questions U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as he testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Fed's "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress," on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C. | Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images

Tim Scott

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who introduced the Antisemitism Awareness Act in the Senate last month, declared that the U.N. and the Biden administration should be honoring the victims of the Iranian regime instead of the "butcher of Tehran."

"Tributes to Raisi are a slap in the face to all those who suffered under his reign," Scott wrote in a Tuesday X post.

In a statement earlier this month, Scott warned that "Antisemitism is rearing its ugly head at college campuses across our nation." The senator issued the statement after introducing a resolution to condemn antisemitism on college campuses after a series of anti-Israel encampments sprung up on campuses throughout the country.

"Jewish students are being targeted with violence and harassment, and the university presidents and administrators, who should be defending them, are caving to the radical mob and allowing chaos to spread," Scott said.

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