Kamangir reports [1]that The Islamic Republic television has just aired short pieces of a program titled “In the name of democracy”. The program features “confessions” made by three Iranian academics and scholars about their anti Islamic Republic activities: Haleh Esfandiari [2], Kian Tajbakhsh [3] and Ramin Jahanbegloo [4].Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh are still in prison.
Iran:Three Iranian Scholars will “confess”
· Written by Fred Petrossian
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