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Sharif University faculty protest US arrest
Faculty members at Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in Tehran, Iran, have protested the arrest by US authorities of electrical engineering professor Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, who was visiting the US when he was detained on 7 December. News of the arrest became public on 26 January when Atarodi attended a closed court hearing in California. In a statement dated 11 January but provided to Nature on 30 January, members of the faculty council of SUT (pictured) suggest that Atarodi has been indicted for purchasing items in the US for his lab at SUT, which might violate a ban on US trade with
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