Word: afrasiabi
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Second, in an incident Afrasiabi labeled "the real blowing point," he worked with the television program "60 Minutes" to arrange an interview with Iranian leaders and with exiled author Salman Rushdie...
...Afrasiabi said that Mottahedeh, when he found out about Afrasiabi's efforts, called him to his office and told him he had to stop the negotiations...
According to Afrasiabi, Mottahedeh was concerned that Harvard would be associated with the effort to get Rushdie clemency and, as a result, would lose lucrative deals with Rushdie's opponents...
After these two incidents, Afrasiabi charged, Mottahedeh began a campaign to discredit Afrasiabi in academic and professional circles...
...July 1993, Afrasiabi bought an advertisement in The Crimson defending himself against what he called "Mottahedeh's character assassination...