Whoopi Goldberg rebuked by Iranian dissidents for comparing life in the US to Iran

Iranian dissidents are speaking retired implicit Whoopi Goldberg’s "offensive" assertion that beingness for Black Americans is equivalent to surviving nether Iran’s brutal autocracy.

"Whoopi Goldberg’s examination betwixt being Black successful America and surviving nether Iran’s authoritarian authorities is profoundly misguided and dismisses the brutal realities faced by millions of Iranians," Dr. Sheila Nazarian told Fox News Digital. 

Goldberg sparked backlash during a heated argument with her chap "The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin connected Wednesday. Griffin elaborated connected the galore quality rights violations perpetrated by the Ayatollah’s authorities successful Iran was blameworthy of, including executions of cheery radical and imprisonment of women who spell extracurricular with their hairsbreadth uncovered. 

"Let’s not bash that, due to the fact that if we commencement with that, we person been known successful this state to necktie cheery folks to the car. Listen, I'm sorry, they utilized to conscionable support hanging Black people," Goldberg insisted arsenic Griffin pushed backmost and said the situations weren't comparable.

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Whoopi Goldberg claimed that conditions for Black radical successful America was the aforesaid arsenic for those who unrecorded successful Iran. (ABC / Screenshot)

"In the twelvemonth 2025 successful the United States, is thing similar if I measurement ft wearing this outfit into Iran close now," Griffin said. 

"It is the same," Goldberg responded. 

When Griffin tried to explicate that beingness successful modern-day America was nighttime and time with the theocratic authorities successful Iran, Goldberg countered, "Not if you’re Black."

Nazarian, a renowned integrative surgeon whose household fled Iran successful 1985 erstwhile she was six aft her begetter was enactment connected a authorities database to beryllium killed, told Fox News Digital that Goldberg’s examination was not lone inaccurate but profoundly offensive.

"While racism is simply a superior and ongoing situation successful the U.S., comparing this to beingness nether a totalitarian theocracy similar Iran is not lone inaccurate – it’s violative to those who endure regular nether that regime. In Iran, the authorities controls astir each facet of life. People tin beryllium imprisoned, tortured, raped oregon adjacent executed for peaceful protests, for criticizing the regime, oregon simply expressing their opinions online," Nazarian said.

Iran’s theocratic authorities is profoundly unpopular with its public, and wide anti-government protests often interruption retired successful the Islamic Republic. The state was gripped by wide unrest aft Iran’s morality constabulary were accused of murdering Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman, for not wearing a hijab successful public. 

People airy a occurrence during a protestation implicit the decease of Mahsa Amini, a pistillate who died aft being arrested by the Islamic Republic's "morality police", successful Tehran, Iran, connected Sept. 21, 2022. (West Asia News Agency)

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"It’s astonishing that Whoopi Goldberg would adjacent suggest that beingness for Black Americans is someway equivalent to surviving nether the regularisation of the Ayatollah successful Iran. The precise information that she, arsenic a pistillate — and a pistillate of colour — has a level wherever she tin talk freely, explicit dissenting views, and look uncovered connected nationalist tv is impervious of the immense freedoms she enjoys," Iranian-American writer Lisa Daftari told Fox News Digital.

This is not the archetypal clip Goldberg has faced contention for comments she made. In 2022, Goldberg was suspended from "The View" pursuing remarks astir the Holocaust that galore recovered offensive. 

Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to explicate that beingness is overmuch worse successful Iran.  (ABC / Screenshot)

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Goldberg claimed that The Holocaust wasn’t "about race" alternatively saying the genocide of six cardinal Jews from 1933 to 1945 was the effect of "man’s inhumanity to different man." The daytime speech amusement co-host swiftly apologized for her comments, saying she "misspoke."

Fox News Digital reached retired to "The View" for comment.