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...dare Mr. Graham accuse me of "ongoing harassment" of Reza Alavi when it is this gentleman, i.e., the editor of the Journal of Islamic and Middle East Review, who, along with his work-study student, attached to me their fabricated, phantasmagorical plot of a petty extortionist with the worst Middle East stereotypes. It sounds like the intellectual fascists at CMES are planning their second conspiracy against me with more false accusations...
...write in response to yet another irresponsible Crimson news article, the piece on Friday, April 19, concerning the dropping of criminal charges for want of evidence against one Kaveh Afrasiabi, accused inter alia of threats against Mr. Reza Alavi, research associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and organizer of its Iranian studies seminar. While I have no direct knowledge of the court proceedings in question, we have more than once reviewed Mr. Afrasiabi's wholly unfounded charges of persecution against the Center and its members. We have not wanted to dignify these charges with a response...
...affiliation in print. If Mr. Afrasiabi really intends to carry out his longtime threats of legal action against the Center or any of its members, we would welcome that as an opportunity to document his conduct and the baselessness of his charges. We deplore his ongoing harassment of Mr. Alavi, who has done absolutely nothing to merit this. --William A. Graham, Professor of the History of Religion and Islamic Studies and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
...Alavi said he is not positive that Afrasiabi was involved in the extortion. "I really can't say [whether he was guilty or not]," he said. "I didn't see him write those letters...
Afrasiabi said he plans to file a civil suit in Suffolk County Court next week against the University, Alavi, Mottahedeh, Rana and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...