Connecticut private school teacher Iman Rasti has been fired from his job after he was caught making shocking sexual comments about his students in an undercover video captured by Project Veritas, according to The National Desk (TND).
Rasti, who was a middle school English teacher at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut, told an undercover journalist from Project Veritas that he got aroused in his class after seeing his female students with their legs wide open.
Rasti said in the video that every day there's different panties on. He shared that three students wear green, black, and white panties and they make sure of it, like "they talk to each other."
Green Farms Academy fires Rasti because of his inappropriate comments
When the undercover reporter asked Rasti if he was tempted, he replied "everyday" and that "it is very hard, literally and figuratively." The Connecticut School Director went so far as to say that he could not even concentrate while teaching in his class because he was so aroused by his students, according to WPDE.
A source close to the matter provided TND with a letter that Greens Farms Academy sent to the school community confirming Rasti's termination. The letter read that Dr. Rasti's grossly inappropriate comments are anathema to everything they stand for.
The letter noted that Rasti claimed that the statements he made in the edited video were taken out of context but Green Farms Academy has no tolerance for inappropriate conduct by adults in their community.
The letter added that nothing in the background check, references, or professional performance of Dr. Rasti while he was a teacher at GFA would have led them to believe that he would act in this manner.
Retired police officer concerned with Rasti's remarks
Project Veritas reached out to retired State Police Officer, Corporal Thomas McAndrew, following these shocking statements made by Rasti. McAndrew spent 25 years on the police force, profiling offenders and leading major crime investigations in the state of Pennsylvania.
McAndrew said in the interview that Rasti's remarks raise concerns. He noted that it is just very concerning that Rasti would "lose that judgment, of the difference between what position he is in."
McAndrew added that he is concerned with the fact that this is where Rasti's mindset is. He said that the teacher's "mindset is not in welcoming back a teenager who is a student, but instead, he's obsessed with a sexual connotation or the sexual aspect of that student."
McAndrew said that "fantasy is one thing, thinking it is another thing." He said it is certainly a concern to them when Rasti "blurred the lines and started to justify all of his behavior." He said that what Rasti is doing is "predatory" as he was "constantly obsessed with sexual aspects of these children."
