It’s hard not to notice the sharp contrast we witnessed over the weekend between the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests and the demonstrations taking place in Iran.

Well, maybe it is hard for some.

Here’s DNC Chairman Ken Martin doing his best to squeeze out a comparison between the two events.

From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability.

In Iran, brave protestors confront a far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent and denies basic freedoms. Here at home, tens of thousands are…

“In Iran, brave protestors confront a far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent and denies basic freedoms,” Martin wrote. “Here at home, tens of thousands are marching after the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good- demanding justice, transparency, and an end to an unchecked federal force that takes lives and tears families apart.”

This absurd statement was widely mocked on social media.

In Iran, protesters are risking death fighting for freedom from a brutal Islamic terrorist regime.

In Minneapolis, Radical Left lunatics and purple-haired schizos are melting down over law enforcement.

The head of the Democrat Party thinks they are the same. https://t.co/J1wPAwD0HG

There’s a sharp distinction between the protests in the U.S. versus what’s happening in Iran. I wanted to say this was “needless to say,” but apparently it must be said with so many Westerners clearly divorced from reality.

On the one hand, you have the obviously brave Iranian protesters who’ve taken to the streets even though their regime has been comfortable jailing and executing dissenters who have........

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