Word: reza
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...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...
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...
...Reza Alavi, the research associate who was the target of the alleged extortion, calls the notion of a plot "just too ridiculous to comment on." He said he barely knows Afrasiabi and that he has left the case up to the police...
Other new members are Reza Akhter '95, JoshuaA. Feltman '95, David A. Miller '95, ChristopherRickerd '95, Sanford Weisburst '95, Mu Zhu '95,Ruvin Y. Breydo '95, Benjamin F. Denckla '95,Dominic M. Dousa '95, Marcel F. Gemperli '95, MinhL. Nguyen '95 and Jeffrey...
DIED. MEHDI BAZARGAN, 87, former Prime Minister of Iran; in Zurich. Originally an engineering professor, the soft-spoken Bazargan was imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...