November 21, 2003
U.S. Scholar Released From Iranian Prison
An Iranian-American lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley who had been detained in Iran for nearly four months on charges of spying for the United States was released this month on bail of approximately $250,000.
Dariush Zahedi, an adjunct faculty member who was to have taught a course in the peace-and-conflict-studies program this fall, was arrested in July during an annual visit to Tehran. Mr. Zahedi, who is a naturalized American and a dual citizen, is free to leave
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