Tehran Jails Iranian American Scholar After Long House Arrest

by E Wayne Ross on May 11, 2007

The Washington Post: Tehran Jails Iranian American Scholar After Long House Arrest

Iran yesterday detained prominent American academic Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, according to center president and director Lee H. Hamilton and Esfandiari’s husband.