The Iranian regime is funneling money and its influence into anti-Israel college campus protests across the US, often through buzzily named organizations — and many who join the protests don’t realize who is really behind them.

For example, Texas-based Rise Against Oppression (RAO) says it is a “collective of Muslim grassroots activists” but downplays its links to the government of Iran, according to Sam Westrop, director of Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch project.

“For decades, the Iranian regime has worked closely with far-left, far-Right and Islamist groups across Europe and North America,” Westrop said.

“Following the October 7th attacks . . . Tehran has poured money and logistical support into anti-Israel and pro-terror rallies, encampments and civil disorder.

“We’ve uncovered evidence of this in Houston, where the Iranian regime appears to operate mosques, activist and student groups that are deeply involved in pro-terror demonstrations, alongside Hamas-aligned groups,” he said.

The city is also home to Islamic Education Center, described as “a key Iranian regime mosque in the United States, at which regime propaganda songs are performed,” according to Focus on Western Islamism.

The IEC is a Shiite community center that includes a mosque and runs a free health clinic and a kindergarten to grade 12 private education center, Al-Hadi School.

It is currently renting space from the Alavi Foundation, a nonprofit that is associated with the Iranian government, according to a report. In 2007, the Alavi Foundation donated $100,000 to Columbia University after the Ivy League school agreed to host former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Many of the pro-Palestinian groups are also receiving cash from the Maximum Difference Foundation, the Los Angeles-based grant-making arm of the Amin family, a leading pistachio producer in the US, according to Westrop.

In Iran, some members of the family are close to the family of Iran’s former president Akbar Rafsanjani clan in Iran, and have worked with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terrorist group in the US, according to an investigation by Westrop.

A spokesperson for Primex World, the company run by Michael Amin, did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.

The non-profit filters many of their donations through the Tides Foundation, a fiscal sponsor that has doled out millions to progressive groups, including anti-Israel organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and CODEPINK, among others.

The groups are active on Houston University campus and in April, members of the RAO collective “reclaimed” a student center at the University which has more than 45,000 students.

“As part of the nation wide call to establish the Popular University [of Palestine], we are reclaiming our spaces to push divestment,” according to a social media post by one of the groups in the collective.

One of RAO’s allies, Students for Justice in Palestine, attempted to take over the same space at Houston University again this week, although the demonstrations were more muted and university officials moved protesters to a common seating area.

In June RAO sponsored a conference featuring Muzzamil Zaidi, a Houston-based Pakistan-American imam as a speaker.

Months before, Zaidi had pleaded guilty alongside another defendant to participating in an “illicit scheme” to collect “tens of thousands of dollars” from the US which was then to be transferred to the Supreme Leader of Iran, according to the Department of Justice.

The money was collected from several imams in the US between 2018 and 2019 “purportedly to help victims of the ongoing civil war in Yemen,” but the cash was transported by travelers, in some cases religious pilgrims, directly to the office of the Supreme Leader in Tehran, according to the DOJ.

“With respect to the money collected in the United States, the defendants recruited others to carry the cash from the United States to Iran or Iraq (for eventual delivery to Iran) and caused the travelers to carry no more than $10,000 in order to avoid the filing of a Report of International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments (CMIR) with United States Customs and Border Protection,” the federal complaint says.

The transfer of cash to or from Iran is illegal because of US sanctions on the country since 1995.

Last month, Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, confirmed that Iran is financing some of the anti-Israel student protests in the US.

“Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza, using a playbook we’ve seen other actors use.

“We have observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests and even providing financial support to protestors,” Haines continued, adding that many of the targets of Iran’s clandestine operation are likely unaware that they are being influenced by Iran.

One Iranian-American lawyer and popular TikToker previously blasted the lack of outrage against the oppressive Iranian regime in the US.

“In what capacity have you distorted the story to make the Islamic Republic the victim?” Elica Le Bon, a British-born, American-educated lawyer, asked “woke’’ Iran sympathizers in an anti-war TikTok video in April.