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The Virginia-born professor Mohammad Marandi attends an interview with The Associated Press at the Institute for North American and European Studies of Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran. Marandi is a vehement defender of the Islamic regime and it's ongoing human rights violations (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Azarmehr Blog:
February 9, 2010
(pictured left) is a graduate of . He obtained his Masters from UCL in 1984. Kian was recently sentenced to by the revolutionary court in Iran. So you would think that the University College of London would be at the forefront of an active campaign to release Kian, but what is happening at UCL on Thursday, 11th Feb, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran?
UCL is holding an which will host of all people, Press TV’s Yvonne Ridley and Professor Mohammad Marandi, the same professor who was a reformist while Khatami was the president and is now an ardent Ahmadinejad supporter – noon be nerkhe rooz khor as they refer to him in Persian, i.e. someone who always tries to endear himself to whoever is in power. The US educated professor .
At a time when so many of Iran’s students have either been shot dead in recent protests, sentenced to long term prison sentences or have been banned from further education for expressing their opinions, it is absolutely and utterly sick of UCL student union to allow this to go ahead. A real below the belt blow to the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Imagine if after the Soweto uprising, a pro-apartheid group hosted a meeting at a British university inviting pro-Apartheid speaking people, would it have gone ahead? It seems its only Iranian blood which does not stir passions with UK’s students.
The families of their academic colleagues in Iran are desperately trying to raise bail money to get their loved ones out of jail. Some like are even close to death and their families have had no contact with them since they were arrested. Tens of Iranian students have been killed by the repressive forces, thousands are in the dungeons and thousands have been banned from further education for expressing their opinions, but that doesn’t stop these Judas SOAS academics collecting their 50 gold coins and worthless trophies.
Pictures show lecturer in Art and Archaleogy at SOAS and , SOAS lecturer in Islamic studies, happily receiving their awards from non other than the head of the messianic administration junta responsible for so many human rights violations in Iran.
No one has betrayed the Iranian pro-democracy movement more than UK universities and academics.
Even the Neo Nazi sympathiser, Mohammad Ali Ramin was there at the awards. See:
[...] this week we reported that the University College of London planned an event to host of all people, Press TV’s Yvonne [...]