Harvard pulled the talk and shut down this platform for a regime apologist. We forced them to acknowledge that giving a stage to a lobbyist for tyrants is unacceptable. Do not think for a second that we are done watching these institutions.
January 9, 2023
Final supporters
Trita Parsi in conversations with the Iranian regime’snegotiating team in Austria.
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Harvard University
Oct. 28, 2022
Dear President Bacow,
Your institution has planned a lecture by Mr. Trita Parsi titled: “Biden, Iran and the Nuclear Issue - Can the US-Iran Enmity be Buried?”
(https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/biden-iran-and-nuclear-issue-can-us-iran-enmity-be-buried )
The people of Iran are in the second month of a national uprising against the tyrannical religious government. At this point peaceful demonstrations are brutally suppressed and hundreds of people mostly young and many women have been killed. Thousands have been injured, and tens of thousands have been imprisoned. In this historic moment, your university is hosting an individual who to a large majority of Iranians inside and outside Iran is known as a friend, advocate and lobbyist of the Iranian regime in the US.
Trita Parsi and NIAC, the organization that he founded and led until a few years ago, under the disguise of nonaggression, had close relations with the authorities of the Iranian regime. Mr. Parsi and NIAC openly and secretly cooperated with Iranian regime for nearly twenty years in a concerted effort to reduce pressure on Tehran. The distorted (and glorified) image of Iranian regime presented by Mr. Parsi, accompanied by political solutions he advocated in Washington, skewed the American policy on Iran for years, extending the life of the dictatorship, and suffering and pain of the Iranian people.
Dr. Parsi (under the false pretense of speaking for the Iranian people) was influential In President Obama’s silence during the 2009 uprising of the people of Iran. Recently both former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have expressed their regret for their silence.
The people of Iran are asking the world to be their voice. At the same time Harvard is offering a platform to the person echoing the voice of brutal dictators in Iran.
President Bacow: This is not an academic exercise. Your university would have not offered Hitler’s ambassador to the US, or Apartheid South Africa’s ambassador a platform. To the Iranian people this is no different. Giving a platform to Dr. Parsi is an insult to the people of Iran and all those in the US that care for human rights.
We respectfully request that you retract your invitation To Mr. Trita Parsi to give a talk at Harvard.
Note: This letter and the name of those signing it will be openly published.
Respectfully
Updates
Reached 5,000 supporters
October 31, 2022
October 31, 2022
We hit one hundred signatures in record time. Harvard needs to understand that we refuse to let them host a regime puppet without a fight.
Reached 1,000 supporters
October 30, 2022
Reached 100 supporters
October 29, 2022
10 Comments
Islamic Iranian Government occupied Iran 43 years ago and removed all human right to Iranian. They have continuously executed people who fought for human right. They are terrorist and a brunch of ISIs. They must be treated like west treated Ghedafi, Dadam Hosein, Bin laden and Soleimani who was head of Sepah in Iran. Please stop supporting Iranian Government for sake of oil and gas and other resources in Iran. We want to see action and no more talk like what you all did to Sadam Hosein Ghadafi and Soleimani we know all history of Iran now and we know you can do it.
Iranian regime is the central bank of international terror and this guy is a puppet of this regime so, he dose not deserve to be at your university. Regards,
Harvard University. I was shocked to hear the news of the speech, the speaker and the lobby of the Islamic regime of Iran. The permission to enter Trita Parsi, who is responsible for whitewashing the crimes of the mullahs, will definitely bring shame and embarrassment to her inviters.
Trita Parsi is paid and represents Islamic Republic regime. He should not be giving any platform to speak in behalf of Iranians who bring massacred by this regime.
It's funny. Our murderer wanna represent us! Trita Parsi is a royal servant of the Islamic Republic (ISIS of Iran) yet he wants to speak for Iranians.
فرقه تبهکار غیر از اعدام چیز دیگر نمی دانند آزادی نزدک هست
Trita Parsi doesn't represent Iranian people. He lobbies for the brutal Iranian regime and spreads the regime’s propaganda in the West. How could one invite him to discuss the future of the relationship between the US and Iran? Who/What is Iran? Is Iran the Islamic Republic regime? Or the people of Iran? Do you not hear our voices loud and clear? This would be tantamount to inviting the leader of the German American Bund in 1939 to give a speech on how to improve the US relationship with Nazi Germany: "Roosevelt, Germany and the World Invasion - Can there be Goodwill between US-Germany?". It is natural to assume there is a vetting/research process when a speaker gets invited as an expert in the field. It is sad to say that CMES has failed the Iranina people in this instance.
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Harvard pulled the talk and shut down this platform for a regime apologist. We forced them to acknowledge that giving a stage to a lobbyist for tyrants is unacceptable. Do not think for a second that we are done watching these institutions.
January 9, 2023
Final supporters
Trita Parsi in conversations with the Iranian regime’snegotiating team in Austria.
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Harvard University
Oct. 28, 2022
Dear President Bacow,
Your institution has planned a lecture by Mr. Trita Parsi titled: “Biden, Iran and the Nuclear Issue - Can the US-Iran Enmity be Buried?”
(https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/biden-iran-and-nuclear-issue-can-us-iran-enmity-be-buried )
The people of Iran are in the second month of a national uprising against the tyrannical religious government. At this point peaceful demonstrations are brutally suppressed and hundreds of people mostly young and many women have been killed. Thousands have been injured, and tens of thousands have been imprisoned. In this historic moment, your university is hosting an individual who to a large majority of Iranians inside and outside Iran is known as a friend, advocate and lobbyist of the Iranian regime in the US.
Trita Parsi and NIAC, the organization that he founded and led until a few years ago, under the disguise of nonaggression, had close relations with the authorities of the Iranian regime. Mr. Parsi and NIAC openly and secretly cooperated with Iranian regime for nearly twenty years in a concerted effort to reduce pressure on Tehran. The distorted (and glorified) image of Iranian regime presented by Mr. Parsi, accompanied by political solutions he advocated in Washington, skewed the American policy on Iran for years, extending the life of the dictatorship, and suffering and pain of the Iranian people.
Dr. Parsi (under the false pretense of speaking for the Iranian people) was influential In President Obama’s silence during the 2009 uprising of the people of Iran. Recently both former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have expressed their regret for their silence.
The people of Iran are asking the world to be their voice. At the same time Harvard is offering a platform to the person echoing the voice of brutal dictators in Iran.
President Bacow: This is not an academic exercise. Your university would have not offered Hitler’s ambassador to the US, or Apartheid South Africa’s ambassador a platform. To the Iranian people this is no different. Giving a platform to Dr. Parsi is an insult to the people of Iran and all those in the US that care for human rights.
We respectfully request that you retract your invitation To Mr. Trita Parsi to give a talk at Harvard.
Note: This letter and the name of those signing it will be openly published.
Respectfully
Updates
Reached 5,000 supporters
October 31, 2022
October 31, 2022
We hit one hundred signatures in record time. Harvard needs to understand that we refuse to let them host a regime puppet without a fight.
Reached 1,000 supporters
October 30, 2022
Reached 100 supporters
October 29, 2022
10 Comments
Trita Parsi is paid and represents Islamic Republic regime. He should not be giving any platform to speak in behalf of Iranians who bring massacred by this regime.
Islamic Iranian Government occupied Iran 43 years ago and removed all human right to Iranian. They have continuously executed people who fought for human right. They are terrorist and a brunch of ISIs. They must be treated like west treated Ghedafi, Dadam Hosein, Bin laden and Soleimani who was head of Sepah in Iran. Please stop supporting Iranian Government for sake of oil and gas and other resources in Iran. We want to see action and no more talk like what you all did to Sadam Hosein Ghadafi and Soleimani we know all history of Iran now and we know you can do it.
Iranian regime is the central bank of international terror and this guy is a puppet of this regime so, he dose not deserve to be at your university. Regards,
Harvard University. I was shocked to hear the news of the speech, the speaker and the lobby of the Islamic regime of Iran. The permission to enter Trita Parsi, who is responsible for whitewashing the crimes of the mullahs, will definitely bring shame and embarrassment to her inviters.
Trita Parsi is paid and represents Islamic Republic regime. He should not be giving any platform to speak in behalf of Iranians who bring massacred by this regime.
It's funny. Our murderer wanna represent us! Trita Parsi is a royal servant of the Islamic Republic (ISIS of Iran) yet he wants to speak for Iranians.
فرقه تبهکار غیر از اعدام چیز دیگر نمی دانند آزادی نزدک هست
Trita Parsi doesn't represent Iranian people. He lobbies for the brutal Iranian regime and spreads the regime’s propaganda in the West. How could one invite him to discuss the future of the relationship between the US and Iran? Who/What is Iran? Is Iran the Islamic Republic regime? Or the people of Iran? Do you not hear our voices loud and clear? This would be tantamount to inviting the leader of the German American Bund in 1939 to give a speech on how to improve the US relationship with Nazi Germany: "Roosevelt, Germany and the World Invasion - Can there be Goodwill between US-Germany?". It is natural to assume there is a vetting/research process when a speaker gets invited as an expert in the field. It is sad to say that CMES has failed the Iranina people in this instance.
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Trita Parsi is paid and represents Islamic Republic regime. He should not be giving any platform to speak in behalf of Iranians who bring massacred by this regime.