What el Sayed won’t say about Iran tells Michigan everything

Published September 25, 2026 2:00pm ET



During a recent town hall, a Michigan University student named Iman Dashti confronted Democratic Party’s Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed regarding his habitual whitewashing and rationalization of Islamic terrorism. Dashti, who says his family is a victim of the Iranian regime’s theocratic persecution, pressed the candidate numerous times to denounce one of the world’s most odious tyrannies. 

Did el Sayed regret not speaking out against the tyrannical clerics of Iran? 

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