It is not as though Harvard University was not aware of the facts, even if it was not, it has been informed of them by slew of reputable Iranians, and yet it refuses to acknowledge its big mistake.

Here is the crux of it by Ramin Jahanbegloo, a well-known Iranian, who is also an ex-fellow of Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies:

“As an Iranian-Canadian academic, an international writer and an ex-fellow of Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies who spent 125 days in solitary confinement in the Evin Prison, I am writing to you to express my great concern over the news of extending a fellowship to Hossein Derakhshan.

Hossein Derakhshan is a notorious figure among Iranian intellectuals, artists and civil society activists, certainly not because of any achievements in academia or in science and technology, but mainly because of his infamous character of betraying and denouncing his fellow countrymen and collaborating closely with the Iranian security forces.”

Many others have contacted Harvard asking it reconsider its decision of offering a fellowship to someone, who is in cahoots with the Islamist fascists’ murderous security forces and has actively worked against Iranians inside and outside Iran.

In short, if Harvard does not take back its offer of fellowship to an accomplice of torturers of Iranians, it would send a clear and loud signal of Harvard’s big F**k you to Iranians yearnign to be free.

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.