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REZA BARAHENI has every reason to write angrily about repression in Iran. One of that country's best known poets and a former professor of literature at the University of Teheran, Baraheni was imprisoned and tortured for 102 days in Iran's notorious Komite because SAVAK, the Shah's secret service, believed his writings were subversive. Fortunately, Baraheni was well-known outside Iran, and international pressure finally forced SAVAK to release him. He is now living in exile in the U.S., trying to publicize the evils of the Shah's regime...
...Crowned Cannibals, a collection of essays and poems on Iran, is part of that effort. Baraheni writes of the repression of Iranian national minorities, of the repression of Iranian women, of the repression of Iranian intellectuals by the Shah and his secret service. He writes with a poet's eye, relying less on figures and statistics than on the impact of accumulated images, of individuals caught in a cycle of brutality...
...banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks engulfed...
...persons attending the forum at Longfellow Hall agreed by a show of hands to send telegrams to the Shah of Iran and President Carter, protesting the repression in Iranian citizens and the torture of political prisoners...
...confirms him as the new GSAS dean. "I don't think the position at RSKU will conflict with my work as graduate school dean. If it does, I'll drop the Iranian post," Keenan said, somewhat short-sightedly. What Keenan fails to realize is that his involvement with the Shah's regime runs in opposition to the spirit of free inquiry on which this University--unlike its Iranian counterpart--was founded...