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HARVARD'S DECISION to extend its contract to oversee the design of the Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), that the Iranian government is constructing outside Teheran, is a deplorable one. Along with the $250,000 consulting agreement Harvard signed last spring with the Iranian Educational Radio and Television (IERT), another project sponsored by the Iranian government, this decision once again reveals Harvard's disheartening willingness to cooperate with one of the most repressive regimes in the world today...
...experience with the vagaries of graduate school administration through a professional commitment he keeps halfway around the world. For the past two years, Keenan has served as one of the three American members of the board of overseers of the new Iranian national graduate school being built outside Teheran, Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU). Four times a year, Keenan makes the 16-hour plane trip to Teheran, where he confers with the other RSKU directors over a three-day weekend...
...REZA BARAHENI has every reason to write angrily about repression in Iran. One of that country's best known poets and a former professor of literature at the University of Teheran, Baraheni was imprisoned and tortured for 102 days in Iran's notorious Komite because SAVAK, the Shah's secret service, believed his writings were subversive. Fortunately, Baraheni was well-known outside Iran, and international pressure finally forced SAVAK to release him. He is now living in exile in the U.S., trying to publicize the evils of the Shah's regime...
...used to be innocent --From "I Used to Be Innocent," by Reza Baraheni...
...Reza Baraheni said that American business interests have dominated United States relations with Iran since the days of President Truman...