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Jill Reilly, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office, said the charges against Kaveh L. Afrasiabi were dropped because key witness Shobhana Rana '89 was not able to confirm Afrasiabi's identity as the man she said sent hostile letters to her boss, Reza Alavi, a research associate at the center...
Therefore, when I heard that Dr. Afrasiabi might appear on "60 Minutes," I informed Mike Wallace by fax that Dr. Afrasiabi has only "faculty associate" status (now known as "affiliate in research"), a courtesy status that the center often extends to scholars at neighboring institutions so that they may participate in lectures and similar events at the Center. (Dr. Afrasiabi told us at the time that he was teaching at Northeastern...
...know who Dr. Afrasiabi understands to be "Rushdie's opponents," with whom Harvard had or might have "lucrative deals." If he means Iran, it should be noted that I wrote strong criticisms of the human rights record of Iran in Op-Ed pieces in The New York Times of September 1982 and June 1983, which would plainly contradict any assumption of pandering to "Rushdie's opponents...
...concluding paragraph of the Crimson story it is stated that "Last fall, Afrasiabi filed a formal complaint against Mattahedeh with the Ethics Committee of the Middle East Studies Association...
However, Professor Farhad Kazemi of New York University, president of the Middle East Studies Association, has informed me that no such complaint has ever been filed by Dr. Afrasiabi. I would, in fact, welcome Dr. Afrasiabi filing such a "formal complaint" so that a panel of his peers might evaluate his charges and he might return to scholarship, which I very much hope Dr. Afrasiabi will make his primary concern in the future. -Roy P. Mottahedeh Gurney Professor of History