Dear colleagues,

Let's do something about reinforcing the constructive steps toward
democracy in Iran.

N. PEtropoulos




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>Hi Victor:  This is the list of those petioners against repression in
>Iran.  Please pass it on.  Thanks   Hamideh
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>               This is the final list of the signatories.
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> Please distribute this appeal and the attached list of names as widely
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>                              as you can.
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>             With best wishes for democracy, peace, and justice in Iran.
>
>
>
>            As concerned scholars and human rights advocates, we feel
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>compelled to express our concern about the recent crackdown on the
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>pro-democracy and reform movement in Iran. We appeal to the world
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>community and call on all international human rights organizations,
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>non-governmental as well as governmental bodies, including the United
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>Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, as well as
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>individuals who are supportive of democracy, human rights, and civil
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>society to protest the
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>most recent repression of reform and reformers in Iran.
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>            An overwhelming majority of the Iranian people has
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>demonstrated their support for democracy and reform through three
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>national elections in Iran: the presidential election in May 1997, the
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>municipal elections in February 1999, and the parliamentary elections in
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>February 2000. The ruling minority, however, has been resisting the will
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>of the majority by violent and repressive means and by finally resorting
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>to a coup-like plot through various overt and covert actions including
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>the following:
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>
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>   * The partial annulment of the results of the people's parliamentary
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>     elections;
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>   * The closing of 16 pro-reform daily or weekly publications since
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>     April 23rd.
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>   * The arrest of several pro-reform journalists, including Mr. Akbar
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>     Ganji, Mr. Latif Safari, and Mr. Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, and two
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>     prominent advocates of human/women rights, Ms. Shahla Lahiji,
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>     director of a publishing house, and Ms. Mehrangiz Kar, lawyer and
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>     writer, and Ali Afshari, a leader of a major student organization;
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>   * Public threats of death and violent repression against the
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>     pro-democracy activists issued by some of the commanders of the
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>     Revolutionary Guards;
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>   * Public calls for the murder of reformers by clerics like Abolqasem
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>     Khazali;
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>   * The secret trial of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of espionage;
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>
>
>            Meanwhile vigilantes and security forces have held hundreds
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>of pro-democracy activists and students in prisons since the July 1999
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>violent invasion of universities.  The case of serial killers, a great
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>threat to the intellectual community as well as to civility and
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>individual liberties for all Iranians, remains unresolved. Prisoners of
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>conscience like Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam, former Deputy Prime-Minster, who
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>enters his 20th year of imprisonment, and reform-minded clerics like
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>Abdollah Nuri and Mohsen Kadivar have not been released. We urge the
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>authorities in Iran to respect the wishes of the majority, the rule of
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>law and human and basic civil rights, release journalists, writers, and
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>all other prisoners of conscience.
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>
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>1. Gelareh Abedi (University of Califronia, Los Angeles, USA)
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>2. Nuraddin Abdulmannan (Sudan Human Rights Organization, Washington,
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>DC,USA)
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>3. Ervand Abrahamian (City University of New York, New York, USA)
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>4. Janet Afary (Purdue University, Indiana, USA)
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>5. Mahnaz Afkhami (Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Bethesda,
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>MD, USA)
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>6. Olufemi A. Akinola (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
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>7. Pooya Alaedini (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA).
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>8. Kazem Alamdari (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
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>9. Ozgur Basak Alkan (MIT, Massachusetts, MA, USA)
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>10. Abbas Alnasrawi (University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA)
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>11. Magda M. Al-Nowaihi (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
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>12. Edward Alpers (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>13. Elaheh Amani (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
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>14. Mehdi P. Amineh (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The
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>Netherlands)
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>15. Alireza Azizi (Amnesty International, Los Angeles Chapter, USA)
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>16. Shannon Badiee (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA)
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>17. Roksana Bahramitash (Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada)
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>18. Ali Banuazizi(Boston College, Boston, MA, USA)
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>19. S. Scott Bartchy (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>20. Giulia Barrera (North Western University, Evanston, IL, USA)
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>21. Sanjay Basu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
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>USA)
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>22. Jane Bayes (California State University, Northridge, USA)
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>23. Sohrab Behdad (Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA)
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>24. Maziar Behrooz (California State University, San Francisco, USA)
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>25. Joel Beinin (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
>
>26. Houri Berberian (California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA)
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>27. Elizabeth Berry (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)
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>28. Cyrus Bina, (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
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>29. Leonard Binder (University of Califronia, Los Angeles)
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>30. Paul W. Blank (Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA)
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>31. Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY)
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>32. Heather Boushey (Research and Policy Development Department, New
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>York City Housing Authority, New York, NY)
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>33. William M. Brinner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>34. Karen Brodkin (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
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>35. Don Bustany (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, LA
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>Chapter, USA)
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>36. Houchang E. Chehabi (Boston University, Boston, Mass., USA)
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>37. Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA,
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>USA)
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>38. Jerome W. Clinton (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
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>
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>39. Juan R. I. Cole (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
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>40. Kamran M. Dadkhah (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts,
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>USA)
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>41. Anthony D’Agostino (San Francisco State University, CA, USA)
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>42. Carolyne Dennis (University of London, London, UK)
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>43. Mangalika de Silva (Social Scientists Association, Colombo, Sri
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>Lanka)
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>44. Khalil Dokhanchi (University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, WI,
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>USA)
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>45. William A. Dorman (California State University, Sacramento,
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>California, U.S.)
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>46. Diana L. Eck (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
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>47. Goudarz Eghtedari (Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA)
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>
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>48. Abdolreza Eshghi (Bentley College, Massachusetts, USA)
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>49. Farideh Farhi (Middle East Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA)
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>50. Ramin Farjad, (Stanford University, California, USA)
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>51. Nehzat Farnudi (Clinical Psychologist, San Diego, CA, USA)
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>52. Mary Felstiner (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
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>53. Nancy Fernandez (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)
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>54. Nimalka Fernando (Attorney-at-Law, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
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>55. Stephen H. Fleck (California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA)
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>56. John Foran (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
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>57. Geraldine Friedman (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
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>58. Nancy Gallagher (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
>
>59. Shahin Gerami (Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield,
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>Missouri, USA)
>
>60. Elham Gheytanchi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>61. Reza Ghorashi (Stockton College, NJ, USA).
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>62. Lauren Gibson (Center for Human Rights and International Justice,
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>Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California)
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>63. Sherna Berger Gluck (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
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>64. Mark J. Goodman (Atkinson College, York University Toronto, Ontario,
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>Canada)
>
>65. William A. Graham (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
>
>66. Shahla Haeri (Boston University, Boston, MA, USA)
>
>67. Sondra Hale (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>68. Gerry Hale (University of Californian, Los Angeles, USA)
>
>69. Virginia Harper-Ho (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA)
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>70. Azer H. Hasret (Journalists Trade Union of Azerbaijan, Baku,
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>Azerbaijan)
>
>71. Amir Hassanpour (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
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>72. Mary Hegland (San Jose State University, CA, USA)
>
>73. Julie Higbee (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
>
>74. Nancy Hormachea (Attorney, Oakland, CA, USA)
>
>75. Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL,
>
>76. Homa Hoodfar (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
>
>77. Pi-Ching Hsu (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA,
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>USA)
>
>78. Amir Hussain  (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)
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>79. Mahmood Ibrahim (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,
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>USA)
>
>80. John L. Iskande (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
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>81. Bill Issel (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
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>82. Ramin Jahanbegloo (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
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>83. Muhammad Athar Javed (Canadian Council for International Peace and
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>Security, Ottawa, Canada)
>
>84. Anne M. Jennings (Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, CA,
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>USA)
>
>85. Miriam Joyce (Purdue University, Calumet, Indiana, USA)
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>86. Suad Joseph (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
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>87. Menaha Kandasamy (Institute of Social Development, Colombo, Sri
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>Lanka)
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>88. Deniz Kandiyoti (University of London, London, UK)
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>89. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
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>90. Elham Kashefi (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine,
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>London, UK)
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>91. Farnaz Kashefi (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
>
>92. Sherry Katz (California State University, San Francisco, CA, USA)
>
>93. Seema Kazi (Freelance Researcher, New Delhi, India)
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>94. Nikki Keddie (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
>
>95. Sherry Keith (San Francisco State University, CA, USA)
>
>96. Ross A. Kennedy (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>97. Namvar Khalilnaji (Semiconductor Engineer, Sacramento, CA, USA)
>
>98. Azadeh Kian (Paris 8 University, Paris, France)
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>99. Frank I. Kidner (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>100. Katherine Callen King (University of California, Los Angeles, CA,
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>USA)
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>101. Reza Khatib  (Frankfurt University, Hessen, Germany)
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>102. Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
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>in Paris)
>
>103. Andrew Kliman (Pace University, Pleasantville, NY USA)
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>104. Stephen Knight (University of California, Hastings College of the
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>Law, San Francisco, California, USA)
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>105. Habib Ladjevardi (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
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>106. Burton M. Leiser (Pace University, Pleasantville and White Plains,
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>New York, USA)
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>107. Karen Leonard (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>108. Zachary A. Lomo (?? Cambridge, MA, USA)
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>109. Barbara D. Loomis (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
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>110. Paul K. Longmore (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>111. Marta Lopez Garza (California State University, Northridge, USA)
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>112. Ali Akbar Mahdi (Ohio Weslyan University, Ohio, CA)
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>113. Majid Maleki (Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA)
>
>114. Susan Maloney (Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
>
>115. Afaf Marsot (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
>
>116. David L. Martin (International Language Institute,Washington, DC
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>USA)
>
>117. Mary Martin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
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>118. Afshin Matin-Asgari (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
>
>119. Niyazi Mehdi (Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art, Baku,
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>Azerbaijan)
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>120. Mostafa Mehdizadeh (Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA)
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>121. Vugar Mevlan (International Eurasia Press Fund, Baku, Azerbaijan)
>
>122. Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
>
>123. Ziba Mir-Hosseini (University of London, London, UK)
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>124. Guive Mirfendereski (Newton, Massachusetts, USA)
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>125. Sharon G. Mijares (Clinical Psychologist, San Diego, CA, USA)
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>126. Michelle L. Mitchell (San Francisco State University, CA, USA)
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>127. Minoo Moallem, San Francisco State University, CA, USA
>
>128. Valentine Moghadam (Illinois State University, Normal, USA)
>
>129. Haideh Moghissi, Atkinson College, York University, Canada
>
>130. Ali Mohammadi (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Great
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>Britain)
>
>131. Sadie Moinzadeh (Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA)
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>132. Shahrzad Mojab (OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
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>133. Jamshid Moori (University of Natal, South Africa)
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>134. Sima Motamen-Samadian (University of West Minister, London, UK)
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>135. Alireza Mowzooni (California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA)
>
>
>
>136. Karen Musalo (University of California, Hastings College of the
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>Law, San Francisco, California, USA)
>
>137. Afsaneh Najmabadi (Columbia University, New York, USA)
>
>138. Mohamad Navab (UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
>
>139. Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
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>CA, USA)
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>140. Emelie Olson (Whittier College, Whittier, CA, USA)
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>141. Abdiel Onate (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
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>142. Arzoo Osanloo (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
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>143. Richard Ottinger (Dean Emeritus, Pace Law School, White Plains, NY,
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>USA)
>
>144. Saeed Paivandi (University of Paris 8, Paris, France)
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>145. Mary Pardo (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)
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>146. Kamal Dean Parhizgar (Texas A&M International University, Texas,
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>USA)
>
>147. Misagh Parsa (Dartmouth College)
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>148. Trita Parsi (Consultant, Stockholm, Sweden)
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>149. Julyana Peard (San Francisco State University, CA, USA)
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>150. Sassan Pejhan (Electrical Engineer, Princeton, NJ)
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>151. Ismail K. Poonawala (University of California, Los Angeles, CA,
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>USA)
>
>152. Elaheh Povey (University of London, London, UK)
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>153. Jane Prather (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)
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>154. Jack Quarter (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
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>155. Shirindokht Radi (San Jose City College, San Jose, CA, USA)
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>156. Saeed Rahnema (York University, Toronto, Canada)
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>157. D Rahni (Pace University, New York, USA)
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>158. Mohammad Rayej (California Department of Water Resources,
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>Sacramento, USA)
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>159. Yasamin Rostam-Kolayi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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>160. Fazlollah Rowhani (Center for Freedom of Thought and Expression in
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>Iran - Los Angeles,USA)
>
>161. Karen Sachs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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>USA)
>
>162. Tagi Sagafi-nejd (Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA)
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>163. Siamak Salehi (Cincinnati State College, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
>
>164. Eliz Sanasarian (University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
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>USA)
>
>165. Homa Sarshar (Freelance Journalist, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
>
>166. Elizabeth Say (California State University, Northridge, USA)
>
>167. Joseph Schwartz (SUNY - Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
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>168. Sally Scully (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>169. Mehrab Sedeh (Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon, USA)
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>170. Abdollah Payrow Shabani (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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>171. Padideh Shafiei (Tufts Dental School, Boston, MA, USA)
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>172. Hammed Shahidian (University of Illinois at Springfield,
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>Springfield, IL USA)
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>173. Sepideh Sheikhavandi (University of California, Los Angeles,
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>California, USA)
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>174. Mohammad Shekari Yazdi (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
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>175. Gershon Shafir (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
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>176. Sholeh Shahrokhi (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
>
>177. Rebecca Shereikis (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
>
>178. Josephine Shokrian (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>179. Fariba Soltani (Software Engineer, Washington DC, USA)
>
>180. Tina Stevens (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
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>181. Layla Tadjpour (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
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>182. Shahrzad Tadjpour (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
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>183. Gulia Taghiyeva (Center for Human Rights, Baku, Azerbaijan)
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>184. Kamran Talattof (The University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona, USA)
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>185. Richard Tapper (University of London, London, UK)
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>186. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (Illinois State University, Normal,
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>Illinois, USA)
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>187. Majid Tehranian (University of Hawaii, Monoa, USA)
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>188. Mary Ann Tetreault (Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA)
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>189. Nayereh Tohidi (California State University, Northridge, USA)
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>190. Jules Tygiel (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>191. Lilly Vallee (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA)
>
>192. Amalia Vasileiadou (John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA, USA)
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>193. Sherry Vatter (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
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>194. Haleh Vaziri (Political Scientist, Washington, DC)
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>195. Linda Walbridge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA,
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>USA)
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>196. Claude Wanis (Writer & Filmmaker, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
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>197. Wilson Wanene (Freelance Journalist, Boston, MA, USA)
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>198. Susan Weissman (Saint Mary's College of California, Los Angeles,
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>CA, USA)
>
>199. Teresa  Williams (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)
>
>
>
>200. Esther B. Wolf (Teacher, Seattle, Washington, USA)
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>201. Hamid Zangeneh (Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA)
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>202. Eldar E. Zeynalov (Director of Human Rights Center, Azerbaijan)
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>203. Shodja Ziaian, (York University, Glendon College, Toronto, Canada)
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>204. Marvin Zonis (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
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>205. Sherifa Zuhur (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
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>--
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>Hamid Zangeneh, Ph.D.
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>Professor of Economics
>
>Widener University
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>One University Place
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>Chester, Pennsylvania 19013
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>United States
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>Email: [log in to unmask]
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