An academic who holds both American and Iranian citizenship was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison by a court in Tehran for fomenting unrest against the Iranian government, according to The New York Times’s Lede Blog and the Associated Press. Kian Tajbakhsh, a social scientist and urban planner who has served as an expert consultant to several Iranian government organizations and was reportedly due to begin a visiting professorship in urban planning this fall at Columbia University, was arrested in July.
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