Uncategorized | 10:35 am | January 5, 2010 | By Yale Daily News

Iran names Yale among blacklisted organizations

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence named Yale one of 60 “subversive” international organizations accused of creating unrest in Iran after the country’s June elections, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site Monday.

Citing two Iranian news agencies, the L.A. Times said an unnamed Iranian deputy minister of intelligence for foreign affairs made the announcement at a news conference Monday. The minister reportedly said Iranians should have no contact with the 60 organizations, which were accused of being part of an anti-Iran plot backed by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.

“Having any relation, signing any contract with them or receiving any facilities from individuals or legal entities affiliated to those institutions and foundations are illegal and forbidden,” the minister reportedly said, adding that it is illegal for Iranian political groups to receive “cash and non-cash assistance” from the named organizations.

According to a report from the Islamic Republic News Agency, linked to by the L.A. Times, other blacklisted organizations include the Hoover Institution, Stanford University’s public policy research center; the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank; Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization that has recorded human rights abuses of Iranian dissidents; multiple American organizations that promote democracy abroad; and several international, Persian-language news outlets, including BBC Persian and Voice of America.

Comments
  • Hahahaha

    I wish Yale actually had the backbone to take a principled stand and be “subversive” once in a while.

  • y11

    This is awesome! One of the best distinctions we’ve had in a long time. Too bad we don’t actually deserve it.

  • td 11

    haha wow, iran. clearly yale is out to get you. glad you figured that out.

  • hmm

    Is this a problem for any Iranian citizens who are Yale students?

  • Jordon Walker ’13

    What is sad is that Yale actually, at least tacitly, supports radical Islamic positions by not publishing disparaging images of the Prophet.

    Iran must be completely clueless if they think Yale is antagonistic toward them, maybe Bob Jones University, but not Yale.

  • max

    haha this is like Gaddafi asking the UN to divide Switzerland among Germany, France and Italy. And we econ major are always told to assume rational behavior

  • Well

    Even a broken clock is right now and again…

  • Recent Alum

    Reaching out to and offering support for enemies of the United States didn’t help Obama earn their trust or respect, so it should not be all that surprising that the same goes for Yale.

  • ’98

    An “honor” that, unfortunately, Yale does not deserve; would that it did.

  • -

    I wonder about #4′s concerns as well. A cursory review of the Yale facebook shows that a few students would be affected. Their status has just become an imprisonable crime in Iran, no?

  • YJHR stands up for IRAN

    http://yjhr.wordpress.com/tag/iran/

    “Ahmadinejad called us dust, we showed him a sandstorm.” #iranelection About 14 hours ago, Twitter

  • Helen Li

    Yale: A world-class university with fifth-rate moral and ethical leadership.

  • YDN frightened or cautious?

    Wait a minute.

    Yale does SOME things right.

    Didn’t it divest itself of South African stocks when Bishop Moore was on the Corporation? Didn’t it have the first African American Ph.D. (Physics, I think)?

    Didn’t it give birth (albeit traumatically) to Doonesbury?

    Didn’t it NOT FIRE William Sloane Coffin as Chaplain during the Civil Rights/Viet Nam era?

    Give credit where credit is due.

    BTW—I notice the latest Westerfeld article (about his attempted murder) has been removed from your web-edition. (At least, I am unable to locate it) Is that caution or did the debate over the definition of the term “Islamists” actually frighten you?

    Paul Keane
    M.Div. ’80

  • Asylum?

    #4;#10:
    Isn’t there a (recent?) provision for those seeking diplomatic asylum in USA which takes into account the possibility that their return to their country might (in the future) subject them to punishment and danger?

    PK

  • YC07

    #13,

    Could you explain why the firing of William Sloane Coffin is a correct move? Are you implying that his involvement in the anti-war & civil rights movements is morally indefensible?

  • Poust’s grotesque taxidermy

    Maybe you’re too young to remember Yale circa 1960-75. Super REPUBLICAN conservative bastion whose alumni abhorred Coffin’s activism. In fact, back then, activism was equated with communism in Republican minds. When the kent state students were shot in 1970 many people said they should have shot MORE of the students: And they didn’t mean just in Ohio.

    It is impossible to recreate with words the polarizing hatred and fear which existed in the country during those days between activists (long-haired hippies) and what Nixon would later succesafully name and exploit as The Silent majority. (This was brilliantly satirized by Archie Bunker and Meathead in All in the Family, early ’70s) A former YDN editor, Henry Luce, and his magazine empire (Time/Life), didn’t help much to diminish this polarization. Quite the contrary.

    The older I get the more I see how history is a kind of grotesque taxidermy: A stuffed outer layer but no flesh and blood, no animation.

    In recherche du temps perdu becomes the futility of futilities.

  • (Signed version) Proust’s grotesque taxidermy

    # 13:

    (I say this respectfully, perhaps with envy):
    Maybe you’re too young to remember Yale circa 1960-75.

    I was a super-REPUBLICAN conservative bastion of moneyed-alumni who abhorred Coffin’s activism, Henry Luce and William F. Buckley to name only two among many.

    In fact, back then, activism was equated with communism in Republican minds. When the Kent State Students were shot in 1970 many people said they should have shot MORE of the students: And they didn’t mean just in Ohio.

    It is impossible to recreate with words the polarizing hatred and fear which existed in the country during those days between activists (long-haired hippies) and what Nixon would later succesafully name and exploit as The Silent majority. A former YDN editor, Henry Luce and his magazine empire (Time/Life) didn’t help much to diminish this polarization. Quite the contrary.

    The older I get the more I see how history is a kind of grotesque taxidermy.
    In recherche du temps perdu becomes the futility of futilities.

    Paul Keane
    M.Div’ 80

  • YC07

    #17

    As my handle states, i graduated in 07 from college. I do, however, know some history involving the publishing of “God & men at Yale,” the Bobby Seale trials, etc. Yale was a lot more conservative back then, and no one would argue with that. What is debatable, however, is equating the dismissal/firing of William Sloan Coffin as a morally prudent choice on the part of the university. If you are saying that this dismissal placated the alumni enough that they opened up their wallet, then maybe it makes economical sense. However, it seems that your other points were highlighting some of the moral achievements of Yale, and i just don’t see how the dismissal of William Sloan Coffin is an indication of Yale’s moral character.

    Furthermore, would you think it would be better if someone like Buckley were the chaplain? As much as i admire William F Buckley, i completely disagree with his racial attitude circa 1957. His sentiments might have been popular with the Yale alumni of that time, but had those remarks originated from the office of the Yale chaplain, they would be remembered as moral disgrace in the history of Yale.

  • Helen Li

    The US has been making increasingly threatening noises towards Iran for the past two years. What has Iran ever done to the US? You were great friends with the Shah of Iran, helping him to build nuclear plants and indulging in his torture chambers and death squads. Iran has not invaded another country for the past three hundred years, and the US has invaded forty countries for the past forty years. You go into Vietnam for absolutely no reason and slaugtered three million Vietnamese, the residual of chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) is still disfiguring and killing infants in Vietname. Nixon and Kissinger committed genocide of a million Cambodia, making the ravaged country ripe for the killing fields. You don’t even have the decency to pronounce the word “Vietnam,” calling it “Nam” instead. That is the morality of your country and Yale is part of the cheerleading team.

    The recent Obama rant against Iran saying that she has “hidden” nuclear facilites, and the chorus of the British lap dogs yapping in his wake is just one example why Iran fears the worst from western agression. Those facilities were entirely in line with international nuclear protocl and of course they have to be located at a secluded location with Isreal straining at the leash to flatten Iran. Why does the YND not report the politics and reality behind a headline such as this.

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