Iranian Former Crown Prince's Landmark Visit to Israel

Pahlavi’s wife, who was also in Israel, was criticized for suggesting in an Instagram post that female Israeli soldiers embodied the main slogan of Iran’s protest movement, “Women, Life, and Freedom.” The post is no longer available. Human rights groups have accused Israeli security forces of beating, arbitrarily detaining, and unlawfully killing civilians in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. “Nothing says ‘we support freedom’ like celebrating an army that has kept millions of Palestinians under occupation for decades.