Who is Jonathan Brown? University professor ‘hopes’ Iran strikes American military base

Jonathan AC Brown, professor makes controversial statement

After the bombing, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., made headlines for saying he “hopes” Iran carries out a “symbolic strike” in return. Jonathan AC Brown, who teaches Islamic Civilization, posted the comment on X, as per The Spun.

“I’m not an expert, but I assume Iran could still get a bomb easily. I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base, then everyone stops. I’m surprised this is what these FDD/Hasbara people have been auto-erotically asphyxiating themselves for all these years,” Brown wrote.

“Ironically, the main takeaways (in my non-expert opinion, and I’m happy to be corrected) from all this have nothing to do with a US attack: 1) Iran can take a licking; 2) if Israel attacks Iranian cities, it gets fucked up pretty bad. I mean I’ve been shocked at the damage Iranian missiles caused; 3) despite his best efforts, Reza Pahlavi HVAC repair services still only third best in Nova,” the professor added.

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Brown has faced a lot of backlash for his controversial remarks. He has since deleted the post and clarified in a separate post, “I deleted my previous tweet because a lot of people were interpreting it as a call for violence. That’s not what I intended. I have two immediate family members in the US military who’ve served abroad and wouldn’t want any harm to befall American soldiers… or anyone!”