On a recent visit to Iran, Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American Director of the Middle East Program at the Smithsonian Museum's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was unjustifiably arrested. She has been sent to Evin prison where the Montreal photagrapher, Zahra Kazemi, was raped and beated to death in July of 2003.
A Washington Post article says this may be a reaction to the Bush administration's $75 million program to promote democracy in Iran. Perhaps Iran sees this as a prelude to regime-change (specifically in favour of a pro-democracy and pro-America regime).
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