Ahmed Batebi, an Iranian student who was tortured in Iran following a protest and later escaped to the US.
Will speak in Farsi.
talks about persecutions of dissenters in Iran
Iran supports terrorism, but Iranians would never act as terrorists themselves: this shows that the Iranians are peaceful people [the implications of such a statement are of course themselves discriminatory: if the propensity for terrorism is a characteristic of peoples, then some peoples are just naturally prone to terrorism. All this is very reminiscent of the ethnicist-cum-human-rights rhetoric familiar from many Soviet dissidents and ethnic activists]
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