October 31, 2003
Adjunct at Berkeley Is Imprisoned in Iran
An Iranian-American lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley is being detained in Iran on charges of espionage, and the university is among those seeking his freedom.
Dariush Zahedi, an adjunct faculty member in the political-science department, was arrested in Tehran in late July during a trip to visit relatives in Iran. Mr. Zahedi is a naturalized American and a former Iranian citizen.
"This is terra incognita to all of us -- this is so totally unanticipated and
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