Tehran (IP) - The foreign students of Iran's medical science universities held a pro-Palestinian gathering in Tehran on Wednesday afternoon.

Iran PressIran news: During the gathering, the students cried slogans against the US and Israel, Down with USA, and Down with Israel. 

Carrying Palestinian flags, the students from different nationalities supported the student movement formed in American and European universities.

The American student protest movement began on April 17 at Columbia University in New York; the protesting students called on the university to cut off its relations with the Israeli institutions involved in the war on Gaza.

The US Police arrested over 1,500 protesting students arrested across 30 US campuses.

The US-backed Israeli unprecedented genocide of the Palestinian people began on October 7, as the result of which over 34,840 people have so far been martyred and over 78,400 others have been wounded, besides the Gazans' struggling with famine and starvation created due to the war. 219