8 The DePauw T : uesday, October 11, 1983

An Open Letter to the Government of Iran:

We, as speeialists in lralliall and Islamie studies, protest the haagiIIg of 16 Baha'is, including seven women and three teen-age girls, by the authorities of the Islamis Republic of Iran in the city of Shiraz on June 16 and 18. 1983. The Iranian Baha'is have repeatedly expressed and demonstrated their loyalty to Iran. Nevertheless, they have been systematically persecuted for the mere fact that they adhere to a religion other than Islam. Such persecution and these cruel and unjust execu­ tions seem to us a contradiction of all that is best in the traditions of Islam and the Iranian people.

Ervand Abrahamian. Baruch College. CUNY Charles J. Adams, McGill University George Hourani, SUNY at Buffalo Fouad Ajami, Johns Hopkins University Riehard Hovannisian, UCLA Mehrdad Amanat, UCLA Stephen Humphreys, University of Wisconsin Nazih Ayubi, UCLA Charles Issawi. Princeton University Guity Azarpay, UC Berkeley Noury S. AI-Khaledy, Portland State University Jere L. Bachrach, University of Washington Edward Kennan, Harvard University Amin Banani, UCLE Jean-Luc K.rawcyk, UCLA Ali Banuazizi, Boston College Carla Klausner, University of Missouri Iraj Bashin, University of Minnesota James Knt&ek, University of Utah Ulku Bates, Hunter College, CUNY George Lenezowski, UC Berkeley Lawrence V. Berman, Stanford University Miehael Loraine, University of Washington Andras Bodrogligeti, UCLA Allin Luther, University of Michigan Gerhard Bowering, University of Pennsylvania Jalil Mahmoudi, University of Utah Peter Brown, UC Berkeley George Makdisi, University of Pennsylvania Richard W. Balliet, Columbia University Alaf Lutfi-al-Sayyid Marsot, UCLA Jerome Clinton, Princeton University Bradford Martin, Indiana University Richard Cottam, University of Pittsburgh Brinkley Messick. Princeton University Kenneth Cuno, UCLA Beshmat Moayyad, University of Chicago Eric Davis, Rutgers University James Monroe;UC Berkeley Peter Duignan, Stanford University Michael Morony, UCLA Richard Eaton, University of Arizona Khosrow Mostofi, University of Utah Daniel Elton, University of Hawaii Roy P. Mottahedeh, Princeton University Ainslee Embree, Columbia University Guity Nashat, University of Illinois Asghar Fathi. University of Calgary Pierre Oberling, Hunter College. CUNY Adele K. Ferdows, University of Louisville Daniel Pipes, Harvard University Michael Fisher, Rice University David Powers, Cornell University Jos.eph Fletcher, Harvard University Fazlur Rahman, University of Chicago Richard Frank, Catholic University of America Rouhollah K. Ramazani, University of Virginia Richard N. Frye, Harvard University Amal Rassam, Queens College. CUNY Gene Garthwaite, Dartmouth College Nosratollah Rassekh, Lewis and Clark College Raymond D. Gastil, Freedom House Nadav Safran, Harvard University Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced Studies. Princeton Stanford J. Shaw, UCLA S.D. Goitein, Institute for Advanced Studies. Princeton Fadla. Shehad, Rutgers University Arthur E. Goldschmidt, Pennsylvania State University J.I. Smith, Harvard University Lenn E. Goodman, University of Hawaii John Mason Smith, UC Berkeley Oleg Grabar, Harvard University Girdhari Ial Tikku, University of Illinois Peter Gran, Temple University Sherry Vatter, UCLA . Robert L. Gulick Jr., American Graduate School of International Management Speros VryonisJr., UCLA Gerry A. Hale, UCLA Wayne S. Vucinich, Stanford University Andras Hamori, Princeton University G.M. Wickens, University of Toronto William Hanaway, University of Pennsylvania William Young, UCLA John Hayes, UCLA William I. Zartman, Johns Hopkins University Nicholas Heer, University of Washington Farhat Ziadeh, University of Washington Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania Marvin Zonis, University of Chicago