Supporters of the Mullahs Coming Out of Their Closets

READ AND NOTE the names listed below, who in my opinion started to panic when Iran's Ahmadi-Nejad became more and more intransigent and invited the wrath of the West, specially the USA, onto the heads of his fellow countrymen. As a fervent adherent of the Hojatieh sect currently dominating Iran, he could not care less what happens to the Mullahs there. But the other clerics do care about themselves and have reached out to anyone and everyone. Specially academics far removed from reality outside their often unusual mindsets in so many instances. Just read the news.

I believe many of those named below are liberal, left wing political simpletons - their mentioned academic prowess does not indicate their ability to evaluate political reality - or even real life outside their campus environment - but many among those have to be ardent supporters of the Mullahs and fear for them rather than for the populace of Iran.

Not so? Then why do they not protest the horrific treatment of this same populace by the very Mullahs being defended here?

Why do they ignore that the Iranian Mullahs persuaded El Baradei head of the IAEA (with only a minimal effort and no resistance by the former military General of an Islamic country, who is married to one of the womenfolk of an Iranian ayatollah) to remove Chris Charlier, the chief nuclear arms inspector, when Charlier sounded the warning that Iran is in fact attaining nuclear weapons under the guise of the"soft" dual techonology appellation used by the signatories and their supporters.

Some of them may be naive but most seeem to hope that we are - or do not follow details such as El Baradei himself carefully instructing the Iranian Mullahs on how to evade sanctions and navigate through the regulations of the IAEA and non-proliferation treaty and where best to obtain the technology and information they require.

I have a list of torturers and a small rogues gallery up on this site for which I have plenty more names but not enough time. They are the obvious ones.

Those named here seem to be the "fifth column" the outwardly "clean" (though not in all cases) whose main focus has become to disinform, mislead and try to achieve the Mullah aims surreptitiously as wolves in sheep's clothing.

Make a note of who they are and give their apologia for the Mullahs, under whatever guise they present it, no credence.

In their own way they are as big a danger as Ghazi Khankan and are the kind of people he uses to achieve his ends, too.

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We the signatories of this letter (and a list of their supporters)............. write to strongly oppose and warn against the military option in Iran. (We much prefer to let the Mullahs kill, kill, kill the populace than for anyone else to kill while trying to save them from a "much nicer Mullah death"!? Get real folks!

As the International Atomic Energy Agency has found no evidence of research or diversion of materials toward atomic weapons in Iran, concerns about future dual use of nuclear technology ought to be addressed in face to face negotiations. (Apart from delaying harmful action against themselves have the negotiators of the Islamic regime provided any progress to the other side? No. Not even empty promises).

Such alternative venues as coercive diplomacy and military action will lead to further militarization and pressures on civil society at the expense of the democratic movement in Iran. (The cruelty and repression by the Mullahs, including by their latest emissary, former Islamic "reformist" president Mohammad Khatami has not been sourced in the actions of the West but in finally driving students, journalists and intellectuals past the point of no return, where even the bravest no longer dare come out in support for their fellows, let alone for "freedom" or politics.

A request, not long ago, to a student leader to bring others into the streets to help save the lives of several women condemned to death, received the response that savage repression by Ahmadi-Nejad's government had reached such heights that being close to a small group of people invited arrrest, disappearance - sometimes forever - and incredible heights of torture.

What we hear and see in this respect inside Iraq is no more widespread than in Iran, just more public and visible. In Islamic Iran, if you get caught eating during the fasting hours of Ramadan, the least standard punishment is to dig graves.

Why do they need so many graves that they have to "conscript" people to get the job done? Have any of the signatories or supporters shown below stopped to ask themselves even simple questions that point to execution, torture and death on a scale matching the daily events in Iraq? So many graves for whom?

For those of us who have not sold out our minds, consciences and common sense and have enough knowledge about the people who hide in groups like the one below, let us sound the warning and expose the closeted enemy among us.


Signatories:

Ahmad Sadri, Professor of Sociology, Lake Forest College.

Hamid Zangeneh, Professor of Economics, Widener University.

Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York.

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech.

Chris Toensing, Editor, Middle East Report, Washington, DC.

Kaveh Ehsani, editorial board of Middle East Report.

Sohrab Behdad, Professor and John E. Harris Chair in Economics, Department of Economics, Denison University.

Ali Akbar Mahdi, Professor of Sociology, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Guity Nashat, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago.

Mansour Farhang, Catharine Osgood Foster Chair, Bennington College.

Mahmoud Sadri, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas Woman’s University.

Nader Hashemi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University.

Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Department of History, Stanford University.

Said A. Arjomand, Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York.

Abdulaziz Sachedina, Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia.

Binesh Hassanpour, Dept. of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Farideh Farhi, Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University. Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of History, UCLA.

William O. Beeman, Professor, Anthropology; and Theatre, Speech and Dance Former Director, Middle East Studies, Brown University.

Ted Swedenburg, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Director, Middle Eastern Studies Program Syracuse University.

Maziar Behrooz, Assistant Professor of History, San Francisco State University.

Niloofar Haeri, Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University.

Deborah J. Gerner, Professor of Political Science and Co-director, Center for international Political Analysis.

Mark Gasiorowski, Professor, Director, International Studies Program, Louisiana State University.

Nayereh Tohidi, Professor of Women's Studies, California State University at Northridge.

Dr. Richard H. Beal, research associate, Hittitology, University of Chicago.

Kazem Alamdari, Department of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles.

Norma Claire Moruzzi, Associate Professor, Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Goudarz Eghtedari, Voices of the Middle East.

James E. Akins, US Ambassador, Ret.

Laleh Khalili, Dept. of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies - London.

Kamran Rastegar, Assistant Professor of Arabic & Persian Literatures School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh.

Andrew J Newman, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies University of Edinburgh.

John Walbridge, Chair, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Director, Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Indiana University.

Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor, of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Majid Mohammadi, Classical and Near Eastern Studies Department, SUNY Binghamton.

Kamran Talattof, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Arizona.

Mary Ann Tetreault, Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Trinity University, San Antonio TX.

Christine Dykgraaf, Adjunct Lecturer of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona.

Nader Entessar, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Political Science & Law, Spring Hill College.

Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Behad Nakhai, Nuclear Engineer, Entergy Corporation.

Joel Walker, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Washington.

Charles E. Butterworth, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland.

William A. Dorman, Professor of Government and Journalism, California State University, Sacramento.

David Yaghoubian, Assistant Professor of History , California State University, San Bernardino.

Shahrough Akhavi, Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Edward D. Martin, Director, Central and Southern Asia Program Mennonite Central Committee.

Charles D. Smith, Professor of Middle East History, Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona.

Farhang Rajaee, Professor, Political Science & Humanities, Carleton University.

Hooshang Pazaki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Sattareh Farman Farmaian, President Emeritus, College of Social Work, Tehran.

Majid Tehranian, Professor & Director, Toda Center for Globar Peace and Policy.

Darius Rejali, Professor of Political Science, Reed College.

Mona El-Ghobashy, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University.

Sussan Siavoshi, Professor of Political Science, Trinity University.

Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Middle East Studies, Drury University.

Masoud Kheirabadi, Ph.D., International Studies Program, Portland State University. Narges Erami, Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Farzaneh Milani, Professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies and Director of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia.

Ali R. Abootalebi, Professor of Middle Eastern and Global Studies, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Mohsen Mobasher, Associate Professor of Anthropology & Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston.

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Departments of History & Sociology, University of Illinois.

Sherry Vatter, Department of History, California State University, Long Beach.

Hassan Mohamadi Nejad, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Antioch College, Antioch University.

Reza Afshari, Professor of History and Human Rights, Pace University.

Ali Mostashari, Ph.D., Editor, Iran Analysis Quarterly, Co-Founder, Iranian Studies Group at MIT.

David Filipi, Curator, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University.

Matthew Gordon, Department of History, Miami University.

Negin Nabavi, Fellow, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Mahmood Monshipouri, Professor, Political Science Dept., Quinnipiac University.

Hamideh Sedghi, Department of Political Science, Villanova University.

Hamid Hosseini, Professor of International Business and Economics King's College.

Janet Afary, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University.

Ariel Salzmann, Associate Professor of Islamic and World History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Zohreh T. Sullivan, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Arzoo Osanloo, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Law Societies and Justice, University of Washington.

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Syracuse University.

Shira Robinson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa.

Mojtaba Aghamohammadi, Coordinator, Project on Culture and Conflict (PCC), University of Arizona; Founder, Universal Coalition for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue and Discourse.

Poopak Taati, Ph.D., Media for Thought, Sociologist and Journalist, Washington DC.

Minoo Moallm, Professor of Women Studies, San Francisco State University.

Leila Hudson, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona.

Ali Mirsepassi, Interim Dean, Gallatin, School of Individualized Study, New York University.

Freeda Saba, Journalist/ TV commentator, IRTV Communications, The Iranian Television Program.

Jill Crystal, Professor, Department of Political Science, Auburn University.

Sheida Shirvani, Professor of Communication Studies, Ohio University-Zanesville.

Cyrus S. Behroozi, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University.

Mehran Kamrava, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Northridge.

Nancy Gallagher, Chair, Middle East Studies Program; Co-Director, Center for Middle East Studies; Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Esfandiar Bakhtiarnejad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Research and Studies, Inc.

Zahra Taheri, Visiting Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Tokyo.

Ali Ferdowsi, Ph.D., Chair, Department of History and Political Science, Notre Dame de Namaur University.

Kamal Aras, Dept. of Economics, Cologne University-Germany.

Fereydoun Safizadeh, Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Boston Univ.

Fred Dallmayr, Packey J. Dee Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Notre Dame.

Simin Karimi, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona.

Reza Farahani, Adjunct Professor, City College of City University of New York.

Robert A. Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

Juan Cole, Professor, Middle East History, University of Michigan.

Keyvan Tabari, International Lawyer, San Francisco.

Shaun Marmon, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics, New York University, International Center for Advanced Studies.

Shahla Haeri, Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropoogy, Boston University.

Morgan L Phillips, Professor of Hebrew Scripture and Jewish History; Chair, Religion Department, Ohio Wesleyan University.

John Damis, Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Studies Center, Portland State University.

Reza Baraheni, Iranian Poet & Novelist; Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto; Former President of PEN Canada.

Nadine Naber, Assistant Professor, Program of American Culture and Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan.

Hossein Bagher Zadeh, former Professor of Mathematics at Tehran University, Human Rights Activist.

Maboud Ansari, Professor of Sociology, William Paterson University.

Houchang Hassan-Yari, Professor and Head, Department of Political and Economic Science, Royal Military College of Canada.

Julia Clancy-Smith, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona.

Touraj Daryaee, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of History Department California State University, Fullerton.

Arang Keshavarzian, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Concordia University.

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities, Reed College.

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.

Cyrus Bina, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Economics and Management, University of Minnesota.

Ali Behdad, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles.

Mehdi Noorbaksh Ph.D., MBA, MHA, Assistant Professor, Center for International Studies, University of St. Thomas.

Hooshang Pazaki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Naghmeh Sohrabi, Brandeis University.

Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, San Marcos.

Afshin Matin-Asgari, Associate Professor, Middle East History, California State University, Los Angeles.

Shirin A. Khanmohamadi, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, San Francisco State University.

Wali Ahmadi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Mary Elaine Hegland, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies, Santa Clara University.

Nader Najafi, Ph.D., President & CEO, ISSYS Inc.

Haideh Salehi-Esfahani, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Washington.

Koorosh Angali, Ph.D., lecturer, University of California, Berkeley.

John Chalcraft, Ph.D., Lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire / Imperialism, Department of Government, London School of Economics.

Shahin Navai, Ph.D., Humboldt University, Germany.

Nahid Mozaffari, New York University.

A. Kamron Jabbari, Ph.D., President, Mazda Publishers, Inc.

Jaleh Pirnazar, Ph.D., Iranian Studies, Near Eastern Studies Dept, University of California, Berkeley.

Houri Berberian, Ph.D., Associate Professor/Graduate Advisor, Department of History, Director of Middle Eastern Studies Program, California State University, Long Beach.

Hussein Ibish, Ph.D., Executive Director, Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.

Ali Zarrin, Lecturer, Regis University. Barbara Emadi-Coffin, D. Phil., Senior Lecturer in International Relations Staffordshire University, UK.

Dariush Zahedi, Lecturer in International Political Economy and Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Maryam Tabibzadeh, Author of Persian Dreams, Raeligh, NC.

Hamid Naficy, Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art & Art History/Film and Media Studies, Rice University.

Omid Safi, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Colgate University.

Ghada Talhami, Professor of Politics, Lake Forest College.

Lawrence T. Geraty, President and Professor of Archaeology, La Sierra University.

Omnia El Shakry, Assistant Professor, Department of History University of California, Davis.

Camron Michael Amin, Associate Professor of History, The University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Dr. Esmail Koushanpour, Emeritus Professor, Northwestern University Medical School.

Adam H. Becker, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies New York University.

Hossein Kendy, Activist, Iran House of Greater Chicago.

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Director, The Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.

Ali Rezaei, Department of Sociology, Universty of Calgary.

Mehdi Hashemi, President, Asian American Association for Advancement of Georgia.

Gladys Frantz-Murphy, History & Politics, Regis University.

Lisa Rofel, Professor, Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Alan Richards, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies University of California, Santa Cruz.

Muhammad Sahimi, NIOC Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Helene Moglen, Presidential Chair in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz.

David E. Skinner, Professor of History, Santa Clara University, California.

Mehrdad Mashayekhi, Georgetown University, Dept. of Sociology.

Shouleh Vatanabadi, General Studies Program/Global Cultures, New York University.

Glenn E. Perry, Professor of Political Science, Indiana State University.

Hadi Jawad, Co-Founder Crawford Peace House.

Timothy May, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian History Department of History, North Georgia College & State University.

Robert Crews, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University.

Todd Hasak-Lowy, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Florida.

Louise Halper, Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA.

David Ede, Associate Professor of Comparative Religion (Islamic Studies), Western Michigan University.

Martin Love, Middle East Writer/Journalist, American Academy of Palestine Tubas, West Bank, Palestine.

Adam Sabra, Assistant Professor of History, Western Michigan University.

Ali M. Sadegh, Professor, City University of New York Christopher Stone, Associate Professor of Arabic, Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Bahman Fozouni, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Government, Director, Iranian & Middle Easter Studies Center, California State University, Sacramento.

Nader Rastegar, Independent Researcher.

Mina Safizadeh, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

James A. Paul, Executive Director, Global Policy Forum, New York.

Masha Rahnama, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Economics and Geography Department, Texas Tech University.

F. Jamil Ragep, Professor of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma.

Wendy DeSouza, PhD candidate in Modern Middle East History, University of California, Los Angeles.

John F. Robertson, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Central Michigan University.

Bahar Fata, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California.

Ulrike Siddiqi, President, Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association, Hawaii.

Donald Alford Weadon, Jr., International Lawyer, Weadon & Associates, Washington DC.

Reza Ghorashi, Professor of Political Economy, Richard Stockton College, New Jersey.

K.V. Nagarajan, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Edmund Burke, III, Director, Center for World History, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Professor Juan E. Campo, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

A. Verdi Farmanfarmaian, Professor Emeritus, Former Chairman and Graduate Director, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Professor of Middle East History, Regis University, Denver.

Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law President-elect, National Lawyers Guild.

Arash Khazeni, Assistant Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College.

Other Supporters:

Asef Bayat, Professor and Academic Director, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World and Chair, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of London.

Andrea Kavanaugh, Senior Research Scientist, Virginia Tech.

Monireh Mohammadi, Director, Richmond Hill Academy of Music & Arts.

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Rupert, Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate; President and Founder World Centers of Compassion for Children International.

Haleh Afshar, OBE, Professor of Politics University of York.

Turi Munthe, Fellow, Middle East Program, Royal United Services Institute, London.

Daniel Thomas, University of Pittsburgh, Russian and European Studies.

Ahmad Hadavi, Associate Director, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University.

Nader Haghighipour, University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy.

Maria Sabaye Moghaddam, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto.

Diala Al Jabri, Media/Political and Socio-Economic Analyst, Higher Council for Science and Technology, Amman, Jordan.

Saideh Lotfian, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran.

Taghi Azadarmaki, Professor in Sociology, Social Science Faculty, The University of Tehran; Visiting Professor at New York University.

Golbarg Bashi, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.

Jahan Salehi, International Director, Agence Global.

Shahram Mostarshed, Member of the Board of Directors (US), Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII).

Siamak Namazi, Managing Director, Atieh Bahar Consulting.

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Research Associate, London Middle East Institute.

Fred A. Reed, Outremont, Québec Author: Persian Postcards; Anatolia Junction; Shattered Images.

Rami G. Khouri, Syndicated columnist, Beirut, Lebanon.

Bjørn Olav Utvik, Associate Professor, Director of Middle East Studies University of Oslo.

Dr. M. Parvizi Amineh, Senior Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), University of Leiden.

Siavash Abghari, Professor and Chairman Dept. of Business Administration.

Jahanshah Javid, Publisher, Iranian.com.

Amir Zanjanian, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey.

Sherry Shokouhi, Psychotherapist, Queens Child Guidance Center.

Ghassem Ghassemi, Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Germany.

Carol Key, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Tarleton State Unviversity.

PhD Hossein Sheiban, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Stockholm University.

Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Paris.

Kenneth P. Goodrich, Ph. D., Retired Vice President of Academic Affairs Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon.

Reza Fani Yazdi, California Department of Health Services.

Dr. David N. Rahni, Professor of Chemistry, Adj. Professor of Environmental Law, Pace University, New York; Adj. Professor of Dermatology, NY Medical College.

Mateo Farzaneh, Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thomas M. Ricks, Ph.D.

Tayebeh Rezaie, M.Sc., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center.

Mohamad Navab, Professor of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Azam Niroomand-Rad, PhD, Professor; President, International Organization For Medical Physics,Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center.

Thomas A. Green, Associate Director of Libraries & Head of Public Services L. A. Beeghly Library, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Marguerite G. Rosenthal, Ph.D., Professor & MSW Coordinator, School of Social Work, Salem State College.

Shirine Mafi, Associate Professor, Otterbein College.

Ida Mirzaie, Department of Economics and Finance, John Carroll University.

Lowell S. Gustafson, Director, Graduate Program in Liberal Studies Villanova University.

Aziz Karamlou, M.D, UCLA school of Medicine.

Shahrzad Mojab, Professor and Director, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

Katayoun Khosravani, MD, Preventive Medicine Physician, University of Maryland.

Ali Nayeri, Department of Physics, Harvard University.

Mahmood Shafizadeh, President Board of Education Orange Crescent School, Member Executive Committee Islamic Society of Orange County.

Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini, Applied Linguistics & Technology and Human Computer Interaction, Iowa State University.

Abbas Edalat, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computing, Imperial College, London.

Afsaneh Matin, DDS, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California.

J. R. Aman, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Saint Xavier University.

Bahar Bastani MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Missouri.

Judith Caesar, Associate Professor of English, American University of Sharjah.

Kevin B. Anderson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology Purdue University.

Giuseppe Palleschi, Head of the Department, Università di Roma Tor Vergata Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Roma.

Dr Stephanie Cronin, Research Fellow, University of Northampton.

Soraya Nouri, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at St. Louis University, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University St. Louis.

Bahram (Bob) Farahmand, Ph.D., Boeing Technical Fellow, Fatigue & Fracture Mechanics (Analysis & Testing).

Saeed Honarmand, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University.

Jalil Roshandel, Department of Political Science, Duke University.

Richard Peterson, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University.

Jaleh Taghavi Miller, President, Persian American Women's Network, San Francisco.

Louis Kriesberg, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, Syracuse University.

Dr. Susanna S. Bellocq, Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University

Benjamin Wolf, Cinematographer, New York City.

Elham Semsar, Concordia University.

Ghassem Ghassemi, Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Germany.

Siavash Ansari, CPA, CMA.

Reza Saberi, Pharm. D., Ph.D, Science Writer.

Rusti Findley, Executive Assistant to Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate President and Founder - World Centers of Compassion for Children International.

Ramezan Dowlati, PhD, Northern Virginia Community College.

Bahram Zahir Azami, Ph.D. CTO, Hivva Technologies.

Abdolreza Sadri, B.Sc. UMIST, M.Sc. Mel. Construction Management.

Rostam Pourzal, Journalist; Board of Directors, Iranian Cultural Association of Washington DC.

Mandana Kompani, PhD.

Amir Farrahi, Ph.D. Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sunnyvale.

Mohammad H. Naraghi, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York.

Saeed Manii, Senior Manager with the Telecommunication Industry.

Kaveh Tashakori, Architect, Bethesda, MD. Alan Martin, College of Engineering, San Jose State University.

Mirjam Künkler, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University, Department of Political Science.

Saberi, Ph.D. candidate, McGill University.

Hamid Rezai, PhD Candidate, Columbia University.

Mujeeb R. Khan, Doctoral Student, Dept. of Political Science, The University of California-Berkeley Lawrence.

Reza Ershaghi, Candidate for J.D. at Chicago-Kent School of Law

Sadegh Farzaneh, PhD Candidate, Concordia University.

Trita Parsi, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University SAIS.

Ahmad Jalili M.D., Ph.D., Division of Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases (DIAID) Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna.

Miriam Jiménez Román, Queens College, City University of New York.

Hoss H. Ravandi, President. EzItSolutions Robert G. Newby, Professor of Sociology, Central Michigan University.

Hoora Naeimi, M.A. Candidate in Economics, Concordia University.

Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, University of London.

Nemat Sarnevesht, Director, Web and Architecture, Openwave Systems.

Pardis Minuchehr, Ph.D., NELC Department, University of Pennsylvania.

Behdokht Neshat, Founder and CEO, Institute for Advancement of Democracy, New York.

Sally M.Ameli, Accounting Clerk.

Ata Alijani M.D., Radiology Resident, SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Jalil Doostkhah, Ph.D., former Professor, University of Isfahan; Editor of Center for Iranian Studies, Australia.

Majid Mirmontahai, Middle East studies and Independent Journalist, Washington DC.

Khosrow Hassani, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University, Canada.

Nader Sadeghi, MD, FRCSC, Associate Professor of Surgery; Director, Head and Neck Surgery George Washington University.

Iraj Ershaghi, Omar B. Milligan Professor and Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program, University of Southern California.

Amy Watts, Research Assistant, San Francisco.

Lily Yazdi Ryan

R. Farsai, Laguna Hills.

Dr. Niloofar Gheissari, Postdoc Researcher, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Canberra.

Roya Sedighian, IT Specialist, New York.

Abbas Semsar, Shiraz University, Iran.

Mehrdad Nourani, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas.

Helia Naeimi, Computer Science Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology.

Allahyar Kangarlu, Ph.D., Senior Physicist, Faculty of Clinical Neurosciences, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Leyli Shayegan, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Shahab Alizadeh

Dr. Mohammad Amin Mohammad H. Naraghi, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manhattan College.

Reza Karimi, Artist and Art Conservator.

Benjamin Wolf, Cinematographer, New York City.

Armin Sorooshian, Graduate Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology.

Bijan Moshaver, Medical Scientist, VU University, The Netherlands.

Ali Eghbal, MS EE

Kambiz Hassani, Civil Servant, New Zealand.

Saeed Ghanbari, Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Atom Optics & Ultrafast Spectroscopy (CAOUS), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Seyed Vahid Ghavam Shahidi, EE, Sydney.

Evan Siegel, Ph.D., New Jersey City University.

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