Tehran University professor Massoud Alimohammadi assassinated in Iran

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This is my con­stant refrain these days when it comes to cur­rent events in Iran: I wish I had time to do more than write this lit­tle bit and link to a cou­ple of blog posts and arti­cles worth read­ing, but I’ve got too much else on my plate right now. Mas­soud Alimo­ham­madi, from every­thing I have been able to gather, was a nuclear sci­en­tist who sup­ported the oppo­si­tion in Iran. The Iran­ian gov­ern­ment has con­structed a nar­ra­tive in which Alimo­ham­madi was a sup­porter of the régime and he was killed by a car bomb that was planted by the Mujahedin-e Khalq with the help of, of course, Israel and the United States. Here are links to a few places that have more infor­ma­tion, analy­sis and more links to fur­ther details:

I have been work­ing on a long post deal­ing with the pol­i­tics of Holo­caust imagery in lit­er­a­ture and the Jew­ish com­mu­nity. It should be done soon. I’m hop­ing to write some­thing more in depth about Iran when I am done with that.

Maziar Bahari on The Daily Show

Edited to add: Bahari has writ­ten in Newsweek a har­row­ing and necessary-to-read account of his impris­on­ment. Go read it right now.

Maziar Bahari, a Newsweek jour­nal­ist, was held in prison for 118 days in Iran after the con­tested elec­tions in June. His appear­ance on The Daily Show is worth watching:

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