ضربه‌ای دیگر بر پیکر ایران: موج تازه‌ی سرکوب اندیشمندان و پژوهشگران 

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In recent days the Iranian security forces have arrested at least four progressive academics, scholars, and writers who have been prominent advocates of social justice, and opponents of war and foreign domination. Charged with “threats against national security,” Mohammad Maljoo, Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Assadollah Nejad, and Shirin Karimi have been arrested, and several younger scholars have been called in for interrogation. Although the news has not yet been officially announced, we are witnessing a new wave of repression intended to silence and intimidate independent and critical voices in public.

Over the past half century, Iranian scholars and intellectuals have experienced multiple waves of wide-ranging assaults against academic freedoms, independent research, and scholarly public expression. After the 1979 Revolution, more than 6,000 faculty and 57,000 students were purged or suspended for their ideological and political dissent. In July 1999, security forces violently assaulted Tehran University dormitories following student protests demanding freedom of the press. During the 2009 Green Movement protests against electoral fraud, 57 faculty and thousands of students were arrested or purged on the charges of plotting for regime change through “a velvet coup d’etat.” The 2021 election of Ebrahim Raisi as president was followed by a new wave of assaults against universities, as some 121 faculty and thousands of students were suspended, arrested, or purged for ideological dissent and, in a later wave, for their support of the Women, Life, Freedom protests. While the shock of these latest violent attacks was fresh, in 2024 the properties of the House of Humanities and the Educational Center of the Sociological Association were confiscated, and resident scholars were expelled.

The academic year 2025 began with a new wave of repression against teachers’ unions, and it now continues with this latest wave of arrests. On November 3rd, Parviz Sedaghat (an economist and long-established editor of several economic journals), Mahsa Assadollah Nejad (sociologist and political theorist), and Shirin Karimi (writer and translator) were arrested, and Mohammad Maljoo (economist and former university professor) has been called in for interrogation. Having been subjected to years of relentless political, professional, and material pressures, these courageous and prominent intellectuals have been at the forefront of maintaining critical and independent scholarship and a staunch commitment to social justice. Their contributions to scholarship and the public sphere are attested by the sheer volume of their groundbreaking publications. In every lawful society that values academic freedom, they would be respected and cherished, instead of being threatened and incarcerated!    

The signatories of this petition are profoundly concerned about and revolted by this latest violation of basic rights of citizenship and scholarly independence and demand the immediate release of these writers and scholars.

1.     Azadeh Kian, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, université Paris Cité

۲.     Norma Claire Moruzzi, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

3.     Shirin Saeidi, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas 

۴.     Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of University of California, Berkeley

5.     Aghil Daghagheleh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Northern Colorado

6.     Sedigheh Vasmaghi, Theologist, Tehran University

7.     Arang Keshavarzian, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

8.     Siavash Saffari, Professor of West Asian Studies, Seoul National University 

۹.     Nazanin Shahrokni, Associate Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University 

۱۰.  Ervand Abrahamian, Professor Emeritus of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York

11.  Elham Hoominfar, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University 

۱۲.  Arash Davari, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

13.  Hatam Ghaderi, Tarbiat Modares University

14.  Kaveh Ehsani, Associate Professor, DePaul University

15.  Manijeh Moradian, Assistant Professor, WGSS, Barnard College, Columbia University

16.  Fatemeh Shams, Professor of Persian Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania

17.  Vahid Ravaghi, Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham

18.  Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History, Brandeis University

19.  Ali Mirsepassi, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University

20.  Reza Haeri, Filmmaker, House of cinema 

۲۱.  Jennifer Trowbridge, Assistant Term Professor, Barnard College 

۲۲.  Azar Tashakor, Independent scholar

23.  Alireza Delpazir,  PhD student in Sociology, University College London

24.  Afshin Matin-asgari, Middle East History Professor, California State University, Los Angeles

25.  Hossein Hamdieh, Independent scholar

26.  Majid Ebrahimpour, Independent Researcher

27.  Babak Dorbeiki, Former Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University

28.  Janet Jakobsen, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University

29.  Elmira Bahmani, Independent feminist scholar

30.  Shima Tadrisi, PhD Student, Kiel University

31.  Farchine Kazéminia, Moleculari Biologist, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne VI

32.  Mona Tajali, Research Scholar and Lecturer, Stanford University

33.  Mina Keshavarz, Filmmaker and writer, DAE ( Documentary Association of Europe)

34.  Shahla Haeri, Emerita Professor of Anthropolgy, Boston University

35.  Farhad Nomani, Professor Emeritus of Economics, American University of Paris

36.  Mahta SeyedJavadi, Phd Candidate in anthropology at university of Tehran

37.  Ali Porsan, Dipl. Ing., CEO 

۳۸.  Setaerh shohadaei, Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, New York University

39.  K. Chatterjee, Distinguished Fellow, Center for Middle East and Global Order

40.  Shahin Nasiri, Lecturer, University of Amsterdam

41.  Mehrdad Darvishpour, Assiocated professor of social work , Mälardalen University, Sweden

42.  Ali Rahnema, Professor Emeritus of Economics, American University of Paris

43.  Shayan Mohammadi, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Tehran

44.  Leila Faghfouri Azar, Lecturer in Legal Theory, University of Amsterdam

45.  Behzad Khosravi Noori, Visiting Scholar, Goldsmiths University

46.  Shima Vezvaei, Independent Researcher, Iran

47.  Fatemeh Afshari, Teacher

48.  Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London

49.  Maryam Dezhamkhooy, Independent scholar

50.  Sepideh salarvand, Social researcher

51.  Aria Vaghayenegar, Sociology, The New School

52.  Pegah Behroozi, Urban Research Scholar, City University of New York

53.  Dorsa Kazemi, Independent scholar

54.  Yuki Miyamoto, Professor, DePaul University

55.  Shahram Khosravi, Professor, Stockholm University

56.  Saeed Rahnema, Professor Emeritus, political science and public policy, York University, Canada

57.  Christine Reyna, Professor of Psychology, DePaul University

58.  Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies, University of Exeter

59.  David Ingram, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

60.  Sina Chegini, Phd Candidate in Anthropology, Tehran University

61.  Navid Salajegheh, Visual independent artist

62.  Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor, SOAS University of London

63.  Amir Tehrani, Indipendent Resercher, Iran

64.  Dorsa Kazemi, MA Student in Anthropology, Allameh Tabataba’i University

65.  Persis Karim, Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University

66.  Farhad Mehrabi, University Lecturer and researcher, University of Reading

67.  Tara Betts, Professor, Peace Studies, DePaul University

68.  Mojtaba Mahdavi, Professor, Political Science and Middle East Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

69.  Stephen Engelmann, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

70.  Michael McIntyre, Associate Professor of International Studies, DePaul University

71.  Azadeh Shabani, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Kassel

72.  Fatemeh Alamdar, Independent researcher

73.  Ali Kadivar, Maury Green Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

74.  Kevan Harris, Associate Professor, University of California-Los Angeles

75.  Azadeh, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

76.  Pegah Pezeshki, PhD in Literary Studies, University of Warwick

77.  Abolfazl Hajizadegan, Independent Researcher (PhD in Sociology, University of Tehran)

78.  Saeed Paivandi, Professor, University of Lorraine (France)

79.  Shiva Alinaghian, Independent researcher

80.  Jorge Coronado, Professor of Latin American Literatures and Director of Program in Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Northwestern University

81.  Negar Razavi, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University

82.  Maryam Roosta, PhD candidate, McGill University 

۸۳.  Hossein Dabbagh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, North Eastern University London & Oxford University

84.  Elahe Amani, Retired Professor, California state University 

۸۵.  William Leonard, Professor, Northwestern University

86.  Mahdi Tourage, Associated Professor, King’s University College

87.  Alborz Ghandehari, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Utah

88.  Christy Glass, Professor, Utah State University

89.  Niloofar Rasooli, Doctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich

90.  Said Mehraghdam, Independent

91.  Hajar Mikaeili, University College London (UCL)

92.  Behnam Chegini, Human right activist, MA student of Law – Tehran university

93.  Doug Kiel, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University

94.  Haideh Moghissi, Emerita Professor, York University, Toronto

95.  Aida S.Joodaki, PhD Student, Northwestern University

96.  Fatemeh Valiani, Translator

97.  Foad Hassanzadeh, Retired, Germany, Essen

98.  Ashkan Bahrani, Assistant Professor, Habib University

99.  Mitra Rastegar, Clinical Associate Professor, New York University

100. Mehrak Kamali, Associate Professor of Teaching, The Ohio State University

101. Nikolay Mintchev, Principal Research Fellow, University College London

102. Maryam Rahimi, PhD candidate at social policy, University of Tehran

103. Pouria Jahanshad, Writer and Researcher, Independent

104. Mona Fawaz, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, American University of Beirut

105. Ata M.Tabriz, PhD, ndipendent Resercher

106. Nina Vabab, PhD candidate, Utrecht university

107. Elaheh Soroushnia, PhD Student, Freie Universität Berlin

108. Peyman Vahabzadeh, Professor, University of Victoria

109. Kazem Kardavani, sociologist, retired professor Tehran

110. Fatemeh Sadeghi, Senior Research Fellow, UCL

111. Pedram Amirian, PhD Candidate in Public Law,  Shahid Beheshti University 

۱۱۲. Fereshteh Tousi, PhD candidate in Political Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba’i University

113. Alireza Behtoui Professor of Sociology, Södertörn University Sweden

114. Shirin Vossoughi, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

115. Navid Naderi, Independent Literary Scholar

116. Niki Akhavan, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Catholic University

117. Hamidreza Yousefi, Independent researcher

118. Nazli Kamvari, Independent Researcher and Writer

119. Jackie Orr, Associate Professor Emerita Sociology, Syracuse University

120. Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, University of Toronto

121. Saeid Rezvani, PhD, Shahid Beheshti University 

۱۲۲. Sara Hadavi, Assistant Professor, Penn State

123. Shailja Sharma, Professor International Studies, DePaul University

124. Firoozeh Farvardin, Lecturer, University of Vienna

125. Kaveh Rafie, Lecturer Art History, Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP)

126. Somayeh Zandieh, Researcher, Simon Fraser University 

۱۲۷. Abolfazl Moshiri, Research Affiliate, University of Toronto

128. Sinan Goknur, Independent scholar, Duke University

129. Eli Meyerhoff, Visiting Scholar, Duke University

130. Jessica Stark, Assistant Professor, University of North Florida

131. Bennett D Carpenter, Independent Researcher, United States

132. Aidin Keikhaee, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies 

۱۳۳. Mohsen Alavipour, Associate professor, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

134. Heidi Nast, Professor, DePaul University

135. Mehrdad F. Samadzadeh, Independent Historian University of Toronto

136. Roozbeh Aghajari, Independent researcher

137. Iman Vaghefi, Urban Studies researcher, Shak Space

138. Samar Saremi, Architect, McGill University

139. Yaser Mirdamadi, Researched in bio-medical ethics, The Institute of Isma‘ili Studies

140. Reza asad abadi, Phd candidate, ATU

141. Mahdi Soleimanieh, Independent Researcher

142. Spyros Sofos, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University

143. Asghar Schirazi, Former research-assistant, Free University of Berlin

144. Hossein Mesbahian, Independent Researcher and Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Tehran 

۱۴۵. Carolyn Laubender, Associate Professor, University of Essex

146. Paola Rivetti, Associate professor, Dublin City University

147. Rasmus Elling, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

148. Kamran Matin, Reader in International Relations, University of Sussex

149. Marjan Namazi, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Tehran

150. Shaghayegh Yousefi, Independent researcher

151. Niayesh Dolati, PHD Candidate in Sociology, University of Tehran

152. Ayse Polat, University of Oxford

153. Ehsan Kashfi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen 

۱۵۴. Narges Imani, Independent researcher, Tehran University

155. Asghar Rastegar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Yale University

156. Ali Hadavand, PhD candidate in cultural sociology, Guilan University

157. Ali Haghighatjavan, Social Sciences Student, Tehran university

158. Behzad Zerehdaran, Research fellow Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Marburg University

159. Nafiseh Mousavi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University

160. Allison McCracken, Associate Professor, American Studies DePaul University

161. Reza Nassaji, Social researcher and Publisher, Mardomnegar Publication

162. Golita Hosseinpour Esfahani, Independent Researcher

163. Seyed-Koohzad Esmaeili, Researcher, EPHE

164. Azadeh Pourzand, PhD researcher, SOAS

165. Ebrahim Mahmoodi, Indepencent researcher

166. Zahra Mosavi, Indpendent Researcher

167. Özlem Has, Independent Researcher, King’s College London

168. Ali Ahadi, Lecture in Visual Arts and Philosophy, University of British Columbia

169. Fakhreddin Azimi, Professor of History, University of Connecticut

170. Kaveh Yazdani, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

171. Sheragim Jenabzadeh, Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University.

172. Hesam Salamat, Freelance Educator and Researcher, Tehran University

173. Shahin Ebrahimi, MA student 

۱۷۴. Nima Nakhaei, Lecturer, Ontario Tech University

175. Kiana Karimi, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University

176. Nima Naghibi, Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University

177. Nastaran Saremy, PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University

178. Saeed Saffar-Heidari, Sociology PhD Candidate, University of Illinois

179. Zahra Khoshk-Jan, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

180. Maryam Palizban, Independent Scholar/Artist, Associate Member at CERES, Bochum university

181. Mohammad Yaghoubi, Playwright, Nowadays Theatre

182. Leila Shavandi, PhD student, New York University

183. Ahmadreza Azmoun, Independent researcher in political philosophy

184. Sara Hosseini, PhD Candidate, McGill University

185. Aida Keykhaii, Actor, MA in theatre from university of Tehran

186. Azadeh Shamsi, PhD Candidate, University of Vienna

187. Niloofar Hooman, PhD candidate, McMaster University

188. Asal Abasian, Journalist and Human Rights Researcher, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

189. Atefeh Rangriz, Independent scholar, sociologist

190. Arash Azizi, Postdoctoral associate and lecturer, Yale University

191. Faezeh Daemi, Student, McMaster university

192. Mohammad Hossein Mansouri, Economic Student, Technical University Berlin

193. Asma Abdi, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Exeter

194. Rouzbeh Parsi, Adjunct lecturer, Dept. of history Lund University

195. Mahjoube AmaniChakani, PhD Candidate in Sociology, McGill University

196. Nalini Persram, Associate Professor, York University

197. Yixin Pu, PhD student, New York University

198. Maryam Shirinsokhan, MBA and Human rights activist, Hagener Management University

199. Arya Mani, Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and of Genetics, Yale University

200. Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Director of Writers at Risk, PEN America

201. Mahdokht Ghorbani, PhD Candidate, Concordia University

202. Sahar Javaher Haghighi, Independent Scholar

203. Arian Behzadi, Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, University of Toronto

204. Kasra Tabrizi, PhD student in Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

205. Keyvan Mohtadi, Independent researcher

206. Laleh Ghadakpour, Independent Researcher in Philosophy, Tehran

207. Alireza Jaferian, Linguist, SFL CNRS

208. Mehdi Saberi, Translator, Independent Researcher

209. Hamid Talebian, Doctoral Researcher, German Institute for Global and Area Studies

210. Elham Zakeri, Independent Researcher

211. Nayereh Tohidi, Professor Emerita and Founding Director of ME and Islamic Studies at California Sate University

212. Kazem Alamdari, Retired Professor of Sociology, California State University

213. Shakiba Asadi, Student & Teacher, SBU economics student

214. Reza Niaparast, Student, Shahid Beheshti University

215. Laleh Derakhti, PhD Candidate, Urban Sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

216. Fariba Adelkhah, Mme Sciencespo, Paris

217. Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Director, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG)

218. Laleh Anbari, Architect, Independent social activist

219. Amir H. Payberah, Associate Professor of Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

220. Mohammad Moeini, Director of Graduate School Curation Program, Habib University, Karachi

221. Paria Rahimi, PhD Candidate, Western University

222. Sina Entesari, Researcher in advanced school of social sciences of Paris(EHESS)

223. Esha Momeni, Lecturer, UCLA

224. Parmida Attari, M.A. graduate in Iranian Studies, University of Tehran

225. Chowra Makaremi, Research Scholar, CNRS

226. Parvaneh Hosseini, Adjunct lecturer, Ohio State University

227. Aso Javaheri, PhD, interdisciplinary researcher, Simon Fraser University

228. Farinaz Basmechi, Sociologist, University of Ottawa

229. Michelle Helene Mackenzie, PhD Candidate, University of California, San Diego

230. Aidin Torkameh, Researcher Independent

231. Miguel Gonzalez, Associate Professor, York University

232. Maral Salek, Independent Scholar, York University

233. Lenora Hanson, Associate Professor, New York University

234. Homa Saberi, Independent Researcher

235. Atena Kamel, Independent Researcher, Iran

236. Mohammad Bikaraan Behesht, Sociologist, University of Tehran

237. Mehdi Parnianchi, PhD student, University of Cologne, Germany

238. Omid Shams, Director of human rights and technology, Siamak Pourzand Foundation

239. Nasrin Goodarzi, Engineer

240. Andy Clarno, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

241. Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University

242. Mandana Naviafar, PhD Student in Comparative Literature, New York University

243. Matthew Girson, DePaul University

244. Barbad Golshiri, Independent researcher

245. Hamed Aienehvand, journalist, Slovenian Pen

246. Atoosa Modiri, Assistant professor of urban planning, Islamic Azad university

247. Nassim Mehran, Dr. phil., Charité Universitätsmedizin

248. Máire Ní Mhórdha, PhD, Maynooth University

249. Atefeh Chaharbaharian, author

250. Avron Kulak, Associate Professor, York University

251. Samaneh Moazzam, Independent Researcher

252. Agnieszka Frasunkiewicz, PhD Student, York University

253. Saied Khalili, Independent Sociological Researcher

254. Azam Khatam, Editor of GlobIS Review, University of Toronto

255. Jim Vernon, Professor, York University

256. Markus Reisenleitner, Professor of Humanities, York University, Toronto

257. Giuseppe Acconcia, Lecturer, University of Milan

258. Marc Lafrance, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

259. Winifred Curran, Professor, DePaul University

260. Nasrin Afzali, Women’s Rights Activist, President of Parsa Vision for Women

261. Susan Ingram, Professor, Dept of Humanities, York University (Toronto)

262. Geoffrey Pleyers, Professor, FNRS – University of Louvain, Belgium

263. Arianaz Golrokh, PhD Candidate in Sociology & Social Anthropology, Central European University

264. Sonya Scott, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University

265. Kendra Strauss, Professor, Simon Fraser University

266. Michael T. Schmitt, Professor, Simon Fraser Univsersity

267. Adel Iskandar, Associate Professor of Global Communication, Simon Fraser University

267. Marcy J. Dinius, Professor, DePaul University

268. Malcolm Steinberg, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University

269. Mohsen Javdani, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University

270. Bird Dr. Kymberley, Professor, York University

271. Jocelyn Martel, Associate Professor, York University

272. Adrienne Ryder, Former Doctoral Student of Humanities, York University

273. Abbas Vali, Professor (Emeritus), Formerly of Bogazici Uni. Istanbul Turkey

274. Nick Mulé, Professor, York University