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...Iranian officials have not said whether the Iranian-Canadian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Sorbonne-educated scholar who served as a fellow at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies in the 1998-1999 academic year, has been charged with any crime...
...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...
...Jahanbegloo is] not only intellectually outstanding but also a staunch advocate of non-violence and an able spokesperson for the great cultural wealth of the Iranian tradition,” said the petition—circulated by Gurney Professor of History Roy W. P. Mottahedeh ’60—that called for Jahanbegloo’s release. “Knowing his character we very much doubt that he has committed any crime...
Emran Qureshi—a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, who also signed the petition—called the charges against Jahanbegloo “lurid,” adding that “Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and apolitical academic...
...difficulty is Iran has been literally non-responsive to the approaches,” MacKay said. “Whether it be...Jahanbegloo, who is currently in custody, [or] the previous engagements by the previous government on the Kazemi case, their government has simply chosen to ignore those advances...