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While the two contracts for a total of $825,000 to develop plans for the proposed Reza Shah Kabir graduate research facility have generated considerable publicity since the first contract was signed in 1974, two additional contracts have remained largely unpublicized...
...shown a willingness to open up its pocketbook to finance improvement projects deemed worthy by its regime. It was not surprising to learn this week that Harvard has signed its second contract--this time for $425,000--with the Iranian government for the development of a master plan for Reza Shah Kabir University, a proposed 500-student graduate facility in the middle of an Iranian national forest...
Harvard has already received $400,000 from the Iranian government for drawing up theoretical plans for Reza Shah Kabir, and the new contract represents a feeling on the part of the Iranians that Harvard's planners are the best men for the job. And Harvard is resolutely brushing whatever ideological differences it may have with the Iranian regime under...
...Edward L. Keenan Jr. '57, professor of History and a member of the nine-man governing board of Reza Shah Kabir, said the Iranian government "was apparently happy with the general things that Harvard did, so they wanted them to do more...
...Keenan's job is not that simple. Iran's leader, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who came to power by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953, runs the Middle Eastern nation as a virtual police state. With the aid of his CIA-trained SAVAK, or secret police, the Shah has jailed 100,000 political dissenters, according to Amnesty International estimates...