Hundreds of Iranian university students held a rally in front of the Swiss Embassy - that represents the US interests section in Iran - in Tehran on Wednesday to protest the brutal murder of three American Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on February 10.
"Chapel Hill incident is another evidence of the US crimes …," the Iranian university students chanted during their rally, Fars News Agency reported.
A university student participating in the rally said the massacre of the three Muslim students is not an isolated incident, but is the result of an anti-Islamist current in the West. "Chapel Hill incident is the result of many years of Islamophobia (scenario) launched by the US."
On February 10, a middle-aged white man shot dead Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
Local police have launched a homicide investigation focusing on a dispute over a parking space, but the families of the victims have rejected that narrative, describing the killing an “execution-style murder” and a “hate crime".
