More on Ramin Jahanbegloo

Fars News has accused Jahanbegloo of being employed by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy. This is quite absurd.

Ramin has indeed been a fellow at the right-wing think-tank and I should say I wouldn't do the same thing. Especially since, as you can easily find out, its funding comes from the American tax payers through the congress.

But interestingly enough, Ramin is not the only scholar who's done such thing. There are many Iranians who've spent time in think-tanks and research institutions.

Hossein Bashiriyeh , a professor of Political Science at Tehran University, has recently been at the same think-tank.

Even Abbشs Maleki, a senior figure in Iranian foreign policy system, who has strong ties with the conservatives in Iran, is currently a senior fellow at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of government.

By the same standard, a lot of people who've participated in any academic event or program would be liable to the same accusation.

Ironically, the research institute Ramin was working with in Tehran was also funded by the Iranian government.

P. S: Fars News has apparently removed that article. Very interesting. I think it's a positive sign.