Activists say that change.org blocked their petitions against regime ‘apologists’ in the US
Anti- Iran ian regime dissidents have been exposing regime-backed professors across the US, but recently the progressive Change.org platform has been deleting petitions they set up to call for them to face justice, they claim.
The Alliance Against the Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists , said Change.org blocked a petition against Sina Azodi last week, who they accuse of being a pro-regime professor at George Washington University, and has been promoting a book he wrote on Iran’s nuclear program. The group are calling on the university to conduct “an independent and transparent review” of Azodi’s work and recent comments. “This is a man who stated in a BBC interview that the regime has the right to use coercive power to silence protestors and who has documented ties to NIAC, the de-facto lobby of the Islamic Republic in America, spreading regime-sourced propaganda on US soil,” saidof the University of Virginia in an X post last week. Azodi is scheduled to speak at the University on April 27.Change.org removed an online petition demanding that George Washington University conduct “an independent and transparent review” of Sina Azodi, an assistant professor of Middle East Politics.Removing the petition against Azodi is the third time Change.org has taken down one of AAIRIA’s petitions, they claim. Mother of Oct. 7 captive executed by Hamas details agonizing moments of 'son's last day': 'Howled like a wounded animal' Iran 'prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield' as Trump threatens to drop 'lots of bombs' if there's no dealEarlier this year, the company which started in 2007 as a grassroots site for social activism, removed a petition demanding the firing ofLawdan Bazargan, a former political prisoner in Iran who runs AAIRIA in the US, said the petition for Khatami, who is still employed by the school, had collected more than 80,000 signatures when it was removed last month.“They never gave a reason for taking them down,” said Bazargan. “We think that the universities are likely putting pressure on Change.org.” “The removal of these petitions raises serious concerns about free expression and civil society’s ability to organize around issues of public interest,” she continued. Despite some being taken down, some of the AAIRA petitions have met with success, including one to oust an antisemitic professor at the University of Arkansas.A petition has collected almost more than 77,000 signatures calling on the US administration to revoke Trita Parsi’s US residency status over his ties to the National Iranian American Council, a pro-Iranian regime group.Bazargan credited her group’s petition with alerting the school to anti-Israel comments from tenured professor Shirin Saeidi, the former director the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the school. That change.org petition collected 4,516 signatures, and was addressed to the president of the University of Arkansas and its board of trustees.Shirin Saeidi, who headed up the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas, was fired by the school earlier this month.Activists are citing “a potential national security threat” involving Shahin Farrokhnia, who works at a US defense contractor that is involved in projects for the Department of Defense.in December for her attacks on Israel and using university letterhead to praise Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei then fired from the university earlier this month. Another recent petition is addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, citing “a potential national security threat” linked to Shahin Farrokhnia, an employee at BlueHalo, a US defense contractor “engaged in classified projects for the Department of Defense.”Farrokhnia is married to Negar Mortazavi, a Washington DC-based journalist who is the host of the Iran Podcast and a former communications assistant at the National Iranian American Council , which some legislators have accused of lobbying for Iran. Mother of Oct. 7 captive executed by Hamas details agonizing moments of 'son's last day': 'Howled like a wounded animal' Iran 'prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield' as Trump threatens to drop 'lots of bombs' if there's no dealAlan Osmond and wife Suzanne Pinegar beam in sweet final photo before his deathChange.org removed an online petition demanding that George Washington University conduct"an independent and transparent review" of Sina Azodi, an assistant professor of Middle East Politics.A petition has collected almost more than 77,000 signatures calling on the US administration to revoke Trita Parsi's US residency status over his ties to the National Iranian American Council, a pro-Iranian regime group.Shirin Saeidi, who headed up the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas, was fired by the school earlier this month.Activists are citing"a potential national security threat" involving Shahin Farrokhnia, who works at a US defense contractor that is involved in projects for the Department of Defense.
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