Shirin Saeidi was removed as director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies last week after it emerged she used the school’s letterhead to write a letter of support for a convicted Iranian war criminal. He was convicted by a Swedish court in 2022 of ordering the execution of thousands of political prisoners at Gohardasht Prison in 1988, according to AAIRIA, which provided a copy of Saeidi’s letter to The Post. Since The Post’s story about her last week, Saeidi has claimed that the University of Arkansas has infringed upon her freedom of speech in a nearly three-hour rant online.
Author: Isabel Vincent, Benjamin Weinthal
Published at: 2025-12-17 21:44:01
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