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Kenneth Katzman: Applying accurate and realistic reports are prerequisite for grasping the truth about the Iranian civil society and the forces playing a role in it. While we appreciate your hard work in preparing articles of information for the US congress, we prescribe to careful and exact coverage, for only in this fashion the interests of the American as well as the Iranian people would be protected. Presentation of correct and factual reports will considerably aide in comprehending the issues and conditions in Iran. This will subsequently lead to effective decision making in dealing with Iran. In your report there is an obvious error that is alarming. On page 11 of your report where you address the Student associations, you refer to a fake organization by the name of Confederation of Iranian Students as an important Iranian student group. Let us caution you that this organization does not exist inside or outside of Iran. This assembly has absolutely no connection to Student Union-Office to Foster Unity. The Islamic Student Union is the largest student organizations in the country that its members are elected by the entire student community. Thousands of students are members of the Student Union-Foster to Unity and it is active in most the colleges and universities in Iran. Hundreds of them have been imprisoned over the past decade. At the present time 20 of them are still in jail. This Student confederation you refer to is a small group in Washington DC area that has no base among the Iranian students within the country or other locations in the world. Mr. Arjang Davoudi is a respectable political prisoner. However, he has never been a student activist. His age at the time of arrest is an indicative of not belonging to student movement. The so called Iranian Student Confederation actually misuses the name of the Iranian Confederation which was the strongest opposition group in Europe and North America during the Shahs reign. At the time of July 9th 1998 student uprising in Iran, this bogus Student Confederation had not even formed yet. Years after July 9th of 1998, Mr. Amir Abaas Fakhraavar declared its inception. Based on Mr. Fakhraavar own statements, at the time of 1998 student uprising, he was a soldier employed in Irans security forces. He never played a role in students uprising in Iran, neither at the night of the attack by government forces nor at the subsequent demonstrations. Mr. Farokh Shafiei, a student of Tehran University, was the architect of the student uprisings of 1998. During subsequent unrest the Student Union-Office to Foster Unity led the demonstrations in all Universities. The Students United Front was mainly in
charge of staging the demonstrations. Thousands of students participated in that large movement. Therefore, presence of an ordinary non-student person does not accommodate him the title of a student opposition leader in the uprising of July of 1998! We strongly urge you to present all your documentations that point to the role of this bogus organization in student uprising in Iran. We, a group of former and present student activists expect you to correct your report out of respect and deference to student movement in Iran. Please do not allow the US congress to be manipulated by bogus and marginal entities within the student movement. These have conspired with the government to destroy the democratic movement in the country. Mistakes of these types can mislead the US officials in contriving an alternative system of government in Iran and hence severely damage the relationship between the two countries. They also provide an excuse for the Iranian government to continue its suppression of democratic forces. Best regards
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Description Student activist between 2002-2005 Student activist between 1997-2001, short time arrested several times in this period Student activist between 1993-2005, former political prisoner 2000-2003 Student activist between 2005-2008, Student activist between 2008-2010, former political prisoner 2009 Student activist between 2001-2003
Ali Afshari
Polytechnic
OCU
4 5
OCU DSAT
6 7 8
Shahrkord
OCU LG
Tehran
OCU
Student activist between 2000-2010, former political prisoner 2009 and 2010 Student activist between 2007-2011,current political prisoner since 2010 and sentenced to 3 years jail Student activist between 2006-2009, current political prisoner since 2009 and sentenced to 7 years jail Student activist between 1997-2004, Student activist between 2000-2004 Student activist between 2000-2006, Student activist between 1998-2007, former political prisoner 1999- 2007 Student activist between 2003-2006, former political prisoner 2007 Student activist between 2001-2005 Student activist between 2001-2005, Student activist between 2004-2009, former political prisoner 2008 Student activist between 2005-2009
Milad Asadi
Khajeh Nasir
OCU
10
Azad
11 12 13 14
15
Amin Bozorgian
Tehran
DSAT
16 17 18
LG OCU LSTU
19
Javid Fakhrian
Shahrkord
OCU
20 21
Shahrkord Azad
OCU I
Student activist between 2008-2010 Student activist between 2001-2004, former political prisoner 2001 Student activist between 2000-2004 Student activist between 2001-2003 Student activist between 2005-2008, former political prisoner 2007 Student activist since 2006 Student activist between 2001-2005
22 23 24
OCU OCU LG
25 26 27 28 29 30
Mehdi Farnoush Atefeh Ghafari Mostafa Ghafouri Moein Ghamin Majid Gheybi Mehdi Habibi
Student activist between 2008,-2010 Student activist between 2000-2005, former political prisoner 2002 Student activist between 2003-2005 Student activist between 1994-2008, former political prisoner 2006 and 2007 Student activist between 2004-2008 Student activist between 1990-1995 former Iranian Parliament Member 2000-2004 Student activist between 2006-2010, former political prisoner 2009 - 2010 Student activist between 2004-2009, former political prisoner 2007 Student activist since 2008 Student activist between 2004-2010, current political prisoner since 2009 and sentenced to 9 years jail Student activist between 2008-2010 Student activist between 2000-2006 Student activist between 2005-2008
31 32
Shahrkord Sharif
OCU LG
33 34
OCU OCU
35
Abbas Hakimzadeh
Polytechnic
OCU
36
Mohamamd Hashemi
Oloum Eghtesadi
OCU
37 38
OCU OCU
39 40 41
42
Reza Jafarian
Hamedan
OCU
Student activist between 2007-2010, former political prisoner 2008 Student activist between 1999-2003, former political prisoner 2007-2009 Student activist between 2004-2007, current political prisoner since 2009 and sentenced to 3 years jail Student activist between 2001-2005 Student activist between 2006-2008, former political prisoner frequently between 2002-2010
43
Pooya Jahandar
Allameh Tababtabayi
OCU
44
Ali Jamali
Oloum Eghtesadi
OCU
45 46
OCU USF
47 48
LG OCU Student activist between 2002-2007 former political prisoner since Student activist between 2008 by now , former political prisoner since 2010
49
Alireza Kiani
Mazandaran
OCU
50 51 52 53
Ismaeil Jalilvand Amir Yashar Javanbakht Zaniar Mohamamdi Pouyan Mahmoodian Polytechnic Tehran Polytechnic
LG LG Student activist between 2004-2008 Student activist since 2001 OCU Student activist between 2006-2009, former political prisoner in 2009 Current student prisoner since 2009, sentenced 4 year, student activists between- 2006-2009 Student activist between 2003-2006 Student activist between 2007-2010, Student activist between 1998-2002, former political prisoner 2002, 2009 Student activist between 2007-2009, former political prisoner 2009 Student activist between 1993-1999 Student activist between 1998-2002 and former student prisoner 2000-2001
54
Ali Malihi
Azad
55 56 57
I I OCU
58
Behzad Mehrani
Azad
59 60
OCU USF
61
Farshad Mohammadi
Shahrkord
OCU
62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
Nariman Mostafavi Sajad Mousavian Farzaneh Naderi Kazem Najafi Pary Neshat Borgan Nezami Narjabad Mohamamd Nimayi Sepide Pouraghayi
Student activist between 2003-2008, Student activist between 2004-2009 Student activist since 2008 Student activist between 2004-2009 Student activist between 1997-2000 Student activist between1998- 200 Student activist between 2000-2009 Student activist between 2006-2008, former political prisoner 2007 and 2008
70 71 72 73 74
Avat Pour abdollahi Matin Rahimi Amir Rashidi Sadegh Rezayi Mohamamd Sadeghi Shahrkord Tehran Khahejnasir Isfehan
LG OCU OCU OCU OCU Student activist since 2008 Student activist between 2006-2008, Student activist since 2008 Student activist between 2004-2007, former political prisoner 2009
75 76 77 78
Setareh Sabour Benyamin Sadr Kianoush sanjari Nasim Sarabandi Tehran Khabar
LG USF USF OCU Student activist between 2001-2005 Former political prisoner 1999-2002 Student activist between 2006-2009, former political prisoner 2009 Student activist between 1998-2000, former political prisoner 1999-2001 Student activist between1998- 200 Student activist since 2006 Student activist since 2008 Student activist between 2001-2008 Student activist since 2008 Student activist between 2006-2009, former political prisoner 2009
79
Kuroush Sehati
Azad
USF
80 81 82 83 84 85
Ali Shabzendar Saman Shahmohamamdi Samareh Shahsafi Shahebdin Sheikhi Shakib Sheikhi Majid Shiekhpour
OCU LG OCU I
Politechnic Politechnic
LG OCU
86 87 88 89
Student activist between 2006-2009, Student activist between 2007-2009, Student activist between 2004-2007, Student activist between 2007-2010, former political prisoner 2009 Student activist between 2001-2005, former political prisoner 2002 Student activist between 2006-2009, former political prisoner 2009 Student activist between 2007-2010, former political prisoner 2009 Student activist between 2006-2008,
90
Hassan Talebi
Isfehan
OCU
91
Ali Vefghi
Sharif
OCU
92
Sajad Viesmoradi
Polytechnic
OCU
Reza Younesi Mitra Yousefi Ali Tabarzadi Ali Akbar taghdiri Hossein Tabarzadi Hooman Taheri Mohamamd Hossein Taheri Mazdak Toosinejad Ali Zavarehi Zoya Zarafshan
Polytechnic
OCU LG
Student activist between 2002-2007 Student activist between 2002-2007 Student activist between 2004-2006
The office for consolidation of unity ( The united student front ( The leftist group (
: ) OCU
): USF
: )LG : )LSTU
Democratic student association in Tehran university: ( National front student section ( ) : NFSS
: )DSAT