Word: jahanbegloo
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Though Iranian officials have been mum about whether Jahanbegloo has been charged with any crimes, Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei suggested at a news conference earlier this month that the scholar had worked on behalf of American interests...
...Ramin Jahanbegloo is one of the people who was arrested in line with the U.S. effort to instigate velvet and soft revolution in Iran,” Mohseni-Ejei said, according to the Iranian Student’s News Agency. “Mr. Jahanbegloo had an assignment and the intelligence apparatus became suspicious at the scale of his activities and resources...
After being detained on the grounds of the Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, Jahanbegloo was imprisoned at the notorious Evin prison, the same prison that Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested for allegedly photographing in 2003. Kazemi died after 19 days in Iranian custody, setting off a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Tehran...
Since 2002, Jahanbegloo has served as the head of the Cultural Research Bureau, a non-governmental think-tank in Tehran...
Iran’s assertion that Jahanbegloo is a subversive drew ridicule from his Harvard friends, all of whom remember him as a soft-spoken, apolitical scholar who admired Gandhi...