The War on Minds: Inside Regime’s Coordinated Arrests of Left Scholars
Security forces carried out coordinated raids on the homes of several left-wing researchers and translators in Tehran, arresting Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahnejad, and Shirin Karimi.
They confiscated the belongings of Mohammad Maljoo and summoned him for questioning; the home of Heiman Rahimi was also searched, and he, too, was called in for “questions and answers.”
Reports say the arrests were made without any charges being announced and involved sweeping seizures of laptops and books.
The repression of the left in Iran has a long, well-documented history.
From the Shah’s regime to the present, left-wing, justice-oriented, emancipatory ideas have been consistently crushed, with the security apparatus particularly fixated on blocking their growth in universities and the labor movement.
Author's summary: Arrests of left scholars in Iran.