Tehran, 2 May (AKI) - Iranian intellectual Ramin Jahanbeglu, an internationally renowned political analyst and philosopher, has been arrested, according to sources in Tehran. He has been missing for several days, according to his wife, who has not given any further details. Jahanbeglu has a double Iranian-Canadian citizenship. He had just returned to the Iranian capital after working for several months in India and was scheduled to hold a course at the House of Artists in Tehran. The analyst had recently condemned Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his anti-Israel tirades.
Jahanbeglu graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris, obtained his Phd at Harvard and later moved to Canada to teach at the Toronto University. He has written books on a range of topics, from globalisation to oriental philosophies. | Gonna do anything this time, Canada? Or ya gonna wait till he "falls down a flight of stairs"? |
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