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Article: Iran Cracks Down On Academics.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- May 28, 2007
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Press freedom is usually one of the first rights to be curbed, but all types of freedoms are at stake. In Iran, recent crack-downs under populist/supremacist President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad have only sporadically focused on the media. But Iran's intelligence services are now targeting academics and other activists with ties to the West, on the pretext they are receiving some of the $75m earmarked by the US Congress for "pro-democracy" activities. On May 21, for example, charges were published against Haleh Esfandiari, a dual Iran-US citizen who directs the Middle East programme at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington. She has been in Iranian ...