London, Dec 29 : Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to social networking site Twitter to criticise US on race issues using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.

According to The Guardian, in a stream of comments on his English-language Twitter feed, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday returned to a theme he has repeatedly struck since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in Missouri on 9 August.

In his tweets, he compared the Ferguson shooting with the Palestinian struggle in Gaza.

His tweet read: "#Jesus endured sufferings to oppose tyrants who had put humans in hell in this world and the hereafter while he backed the oppressed. #Ferguson."

Another of his tweets posted on the eve Christmas said: "If #Jesus were among us today he wouldn't spare a second to fight the arrogants and support the oppressed.#Ferguson #Gaza." (ANI)