The New York Post reported the dismissal of Shirin Saeidi from the University of Arkansas following her praise of Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran’s regime.
Quoting a spokesperson for the University of Arkansas, the New York Post reported that Shirin Saeidi, director of the university’s Middle East studies program, was removed from her position following reports about her support for Iran’s regime and her adoption of anti-Israel positions.
The newspaper wrote on Saturday, November 13, that Saeidi was accused of using official University of Arkansas letterhead to support Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran’s regime, as well as publishing harsh and critical positions against Israel.
Documents provided to the New York Post by the “Coalition Against Iranian Regime Apologists,” a U.S.-based group, show that Saeidi had previously used university letterhead to call for the release of Hamid Nouri, a former deputy prosecutor at Gohardasht Prison.
Using the alias “Hamid Abbasi,” he was arrested on November 9, 2019, at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, and on July 14, 2022, he was sentenced by the Stockholm District Court to life imprisonment for his role in the execution of political prisoners, on two charges of “war crimes” and “murder,” a sentence that in Sweden is equivalent to 25 years in prison. He took part in the massacre of political prisoners, who were mostly members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
In June 2024, he was exchanged for Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, two Swedish citizens who had been imprisoned in Iran.
According to the New York Post, in several posts published in November on the social media platform X, Saeidi praised Khamenei and prayed for his health.
In some of these posts, Israel was described with phrases such as “terrorist regime” and “genocidal regime.”
The University of Arkansas spokesperson told the New York Post that as of December 12, Saeidi is no longer with the Middle East studies department and that the university is reviewing her use of official letterhead in accordance with the institution’s policies.
Saeidi and individuals like her attempt to rewrite history by exploiting Western academic spaces.
The lies of such individuals lead to the distortion of facts about Iran’s regime.
In early August, Princeton University in the United States also announced that Hossein Mousavian, a former diplomat of Iran’s regime, had “retired” from the university.
Mousavian is accused of involvement in the killing of a number of prominent opponents of Iran’s regime in Europe.
