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August 14, 2024

How an Ex-Iranian Official Made It Big in Academia

The rules did not apply to Mohammad Jafar Mahallati.

In 2007 Mohammad Jafar Mahallati became a professor at Oberlin College, where he eventually obtained tenure and a named chair. Then, in November 2023, he disappeared from the school’s website, and his courses were removed from the catalogue without explanation. (It likely had something to do with attention from Congress over his ties to the Iranian regime.) Mahallati’s career was far from a typical academic trajectory, as Roya Hakakian explains:

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