22 June 2009
iran: academic appeal
WHERE IS MY VOTE
To join this academic appeal send your name and affiliation at vincent.danos[at]gmail.com
We are actively trying to get the appeal in the press (as of June 21).
June 20, 2009
A week ago, Friday June 12, Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the Iranian presidential election. Immediately after, all other candidates, Moussavi, Karroubi, and even the conservative Rezaei, disputed the official results. So did some people who started several demonstrations to express their anger. More news fueled the suspicion of fraud at an unprecendented scale. On Monday June 15, and to the amazement of the world, millions of people – of all ages, classes, and backgrounds – were in the streets of Tehran demanding another election in what was the biggest demonstration since the revolution in 1979. A week later, despite the threats and beatings issued and ordered by the government, millions of people are still demonstrating, and the movement is growing and spreading to other cities.
Observers might find the situation confusing, since Iran has long been an isolated country and the everyday Iranian is unknown to the outside world. One cannot even prove that there was a fraud. There remains the fact that millions of people are protesting in the streets of Iran. These are traditional, religious, modern, young, old, rich and poor, academics – some of them our colleagues – going out in the streets and risking their lives with a form of innocence in their aims and tactics. Some of them may stand on their roofs at night shouting “God is great” to keep the movement alive. They are braving the power because they insist that the Islamic republic is a republic.
The government is imposing a ban on the foreign press, shutting down all means of communication within their reach, arresting hundreds of prominent activists, politicians and religious figures opposing the results, and terrorising demonstrators. Every day fewer videos and reports escape from Iran. The state media is depicting the protests as incited by the West, accusing the movement of being a party of hooligans and traitors. After a week of uncertainty, the head of the state, Khamenei, just issued yesterday strong and explicit threats against participants in the protests and rallies.
This text is an urgent request to academics to fight the misrepresentation of this movement. This is not only about showing support to the courage and determination of people on the streets of Iran. It also means reaching for the many people in Iran who would like to participate but are frightened or know of the movement only through the state media. It means informing these people of the scale and nature of the movement, and thus widen its support within Iran. To all academics, please sign this appeal to support this movement in its call for a new election and oppose any violent intervention on protesters.
Dr. S. Aaronson (MIT) – Prof. S. Abramsky (University of Oxford) – Prof. L. Aceto (Reykjavik University) – Dr. G. Alfano (Brunel University) – Dr. R. Alléaume (Télécom Paris Tech) – Dr. E. Andersson (Heriot-Watt University) – Prof. W. Arendt (University of Ulm) – Dr. P. Arrighi (Université de Grenoble) – Dr. S. van Bakel (Imperial College London) – Dr. A. Baltag (University of Oxford) – Dr. K. Banaszek (Nicolaus Copernicus University) – Dr. E. Barker (University of Oxford) – Prof. A. Bar-Hen (Université Paris Descartes) – Prof. S. M. Barnett (University of Strathclyde) – Dr. G. Batt (INRIA) – Dr. A. Bayat (University College London) – Prof. P. Bellot (Télécom Paris Tech) – Dr. S. Bliudze (CEA) – Dr. S. Bouzarovski (University of Birmingham) – Prof. T. Brandes (Technische Universitt Berlin) – Dr. D. Browne (University College London) – Dr. M. di Bucchianico (London School of Economics) – Dr. S. Buhmann (Imperial College London) – Prof. A. Bundy (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. P. Buneman (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. F. Buscemi (Cambridge University) – Prof. V. Buzek (Slovak Academy of Sciences) – Prof. L. Cable (University at Albany) – Prof. A. Cabello (Universidad de Sevilla) – Prof. T. Calarco (University of Ulm) – Dr. A. del Campo (Imperial College London) – Dr. N. Cannata (Università di Camerino) – Prof. A. Carbone (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) – Prof. P. Carbone (Università IULM) – Prof. S. Carroll (Caltech) – Dr. D. Cavalcanti (ICFO - Barcelon) – Prof. B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University) – Dr. K. Chatzikokolakis (Technical University of Eindhoven) – Prof. C. W. Clark (University of Maryland) – Dr. S. R. Clark (National University of Singapore) – Dr. B. Coecke (University of Oxford) – Prof. S. B. Cooper (University of Leeds) – Prof. D. W. Corne (Heriot-Watt University) – Dr. M. Cramer (Imperial College London) – Dr. P. Crépieux (CNRS) – Prof. W. van Dam (University of California) – Prof. V. Danos (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. G. M. D’Ariano (University of Pavia) – Dr. N. Datta (University of Cambridge) – Dr. O. Dahlsten (ETH Zurich) – Dr. J. Degorre (CNRS) – Dr. J. Desharnais (Université Laval) – Prof. M. Dezani-Ciancaglini (Università di Torino) – Prof. E. E. Doberkat (Technische Universität Dortmund) – Dr. T. Douglas (University of Oxford) – Prof. D. Dubhashi (Chalmers University) – Dr. P. Dumais (Université de Montréal) – Dr. R. Duncan (Oxford University) – Prof. J. Eisert (University of Potsdam) – Prof. H. Emamirad (Poitiers University) – Dr. M. Ericsson (Uppsala University) – Dr. K. Etessami (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. B. Farzad (Brock University) – Prof. R. Fazio (Scuola Normale Superiore) – Dr. A. Farjudian (Aston University) – Dr. J. Feret (INRIA) – Dr. A. Feito (Imperial College London) – Prof. F. Ferreira (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. J. Fitzsimons (University of Oxford) – Prof. W. Fontana (Harvard University) – Prof. B. Foroughi (St. Francis Xavier University) – Dr. I. Fuentes-Schuller (University of Hertfordshire) – Prof. E. Fox Keller (MIT) – Dr. E. F. Galvão (University of Federal Fluminense) – Prof. J. Gauntlett (Imperial College London) – Dr. J. George (University of Toronto) – Dr. G. Giuli (Università di Camerino) – Dr. D. Green (The City University of New York) – Dr. D Gross (University of Hannover) – Dr. G. Gualdi (Università di Camerino) – Dr. A. R. Hadaegh (California State University San Marcos) – Prof. S. Hanneton (Paris Descartes University) – Dr. R. Harmer (CNRS) – Prof. M. Hartmann (Technische Universität München) – Prof. J. M. Henderson (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. L. Hendren (McGill University) – Dr. W. K. Hensinger (University of Sussex) – Prof. J. Hillston (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. M. Hirschowitz (CEA) – Dr. S. Hym (Université Lille 1) – Dr. M. Huth (Imperial College London) – Prof. J. Hutnyk (Goldsmiths) – Prof. M. Ivanov (Imperial College London) – Dr. A. Iwasiewicz-Wabnig (University of Oxford) – Dr. K. Jacobs, (University of Massachusetts) – Prof. H. J. Jensen (Imperial College London) – Prof. P. Jorrand (CNRS) – Prof. J.-P. Jouannaud (INRIA) – Prof. R. Jozsa (University of Bristol) – Dr. E. Kashefi (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. S. Kedad-Sidhoum (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) – Dr. A. Kent (Cambridge University) – Dr. I. Kerenidis (CNRS) – Prof. D. Kesner (Université Paris Diderot) – Prof. F. Képes (CNRS) – Dr. H. Koeppl (EPFL) – Dr. P. Kok (University of Sheffield) – Dr. J. Krivine (IHES) – Prof. R. Laflamme (University of Waterloo) – Dr. M. Laforest (Delft University of Technology) – Dr. F. Laviolette (Université Laval) – Prof. B. Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. M. Lein (University of Hannover) – Prof. G. Leuchs (Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg) – Prof. L. Libkin (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. G. Longo (CNRS) – Dr. P. van Loock (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light) Prof. N. Lütkenhaus (University of Waterloo) – Dr. D. Markham (CNRS) – Prof. H. Mairson (Brandeis University) – Dr. R. Mardare (Università di Trento) – Dr. D. Mazza (CNRS) – Dr. P.-A. Mellies (CNRS) – Prof. M. Mislove (Tulane University) – Prof. E. Mjolsness (University of California) – Prof. C. Moore (University of New Mexico) – Prof. M. Mosca (University of Waterloo) – Prof. M. Murao (University of Tokyo) – Dr. A. Murawski (University of Oxford) – Dr. R. Nagarajan (University of Warwick) – Dr. M. Navascues (Imperial College London) – Prof. B. Nordstrom (Chalmers University) – Dr. P. Ohberg (Heriot-Watt University) – Dr. A. Olaya-Castro (University College London) – Prof. C.-H. L. Ong (University of Oxford) – Dr. N. Oury (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. M. Owari (Imperial College London) – Prof. C. Palamidessi (INRIA) – Prof. P. Panangaden (McGill University) – Dr. D. Pavlovic (University of Oxford) – Dr. M. Pedicini (CNR) – Prof. O. Penrose (Heriot-Watt University) – Dr. M. Planat (Université de Franche-Comté) – Prof. M. B. Plenio (Imperial College London) – Prof. G. Plotkin (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. O. Radulescu (University of Rennes 1) – Dr. R. Rahimi Darabad (Kinki University) – Prof. D. V. G. L. N. Rao (University of Massachusetts Boston) – Prof. L. Regnier (Université de la Méditerranée) – Dr. D. Reitter (Carnegie Mellon University) – Prof. L. Roversi (Università di Torino) – Dr. T. Rudolph(Imperial College London) – Prof. P. Y. A. Ryan (University of Luxembourg) – Dr. M. Sadrzadeh (University of Oxford) – Prof. B. Sanders (University of Calgary) – Dr. R. Santhanam (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. M. Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) – Prof. W. Schleich (University of Ulm) – Prof. P. Selinger (Dalhousie University) – Dr. A. Serafini (University College London) – Dr. P. Series (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. S. Severini (University of Waterloo) – Dr. M. P. da Silva (Université de Sherbrooke) – Prof. L. Smolin (Perimeter Institute) – Dr. P. Sobocinski (University of Southampton) – Dr. R. Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) – Prof. A. Steinberg (University of Toronto) – Dr. K. Szacilowski (Jagiellonian University) – Prof. F. Taddei (Université Paris Descartes) – Prof. A. Tapp (Université de Montréal) – Prof. A. Thiele (Newcastle University) – Dr. L. Tortora de Falco (Università Roma Tre) – Dr. F. Valckenborgh (Macquarie University) – Dr. D. Varacca (Université Paris Diderot) – Dr. M. G. Vigliotti (Imperial College London) – Dr. S. Virmani (University of Strathclyde) – Prof. N. Vitanov (Sofia University) – Prof. P. Wadler (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. B. Werner (INRIA) – Prof. R. F. Werner (Technical University of Braunschweig) – Dr. M. Zoli (Università di Camerino) – Prof. E. Zucca (Università di Genova)
To join this academic appeal send your name and affiliation at vincent.danos[at]gmail.com
We are actively trying to get the appeal in the press (as of June 21).
June 20, 2009
A week ago, Friday June 12, Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the Iranian presidential election. Immediately after, all other candidates, Moussavi, Karroubi, and even the conservative Rezaei, disputed the official results. So did some people who started several demonstrations to express their anger. More news fueled the suspicion of fraud at an unprecendented scale. On Monday June 15, and to the amazement of the world, millions of people – of all ages, classes, and backgrounds – were in the streets of Tehran demanding another election in what was the biggest demonstration since the revolution in 1979. A week later, despite the threats and beatings issued and ordered by the government, millions of people are still demonstrating, and the movement is growing and spreading to other cities.
Observers might find the situation confusing, since Iran has long been an isolated country and the everyday Iranian is unknown to the outside world. One cannot even prove that there was a fraud. There remains the fact that millions of people are protesting in the streets of Iran. These are traditional, religious, modern, young, old, rich and poor, academics – some of them our colleagues – going out in the streets and risking their lives with a form of innocence in their aims and tactics. Some of them may stand on their roofs at night shouting “God is great” to keep the movement alive. They are braving the power because they insist that the Islamic republic is a republic.
The government is imposing a ban on the foreign press, shutting down all means of communication within their reach, arresting hundreds of prominent activists, politicians and religious figures opposing the results, and terrorising demonstrators. Every day fewer videos and reports escape from Iran. The state media is depicting the protests as incited by the West, accusing the movement of being a party of hooligans and traitors. After a week of uncertainty, the head of the state, Khamenei, just issued yesterday strong and explicit threats against participants in the protests and rallies.
This text is an urgent request to academics to fight the misrepresentation of this movement. This is not only about showing support to the courage and determination of people on the streets of Iran. It also means reaching for the many people in Iran who would like to participate but are frightened or know of the movement only through the state media. It means informing these people of the scale and nature of the movement, and thus widen its support within Iran. To all academics, please sign this appeal to support this movement in its call for a new election and oppose any violent intervention on protesters.
Dr. S. Aaronson (MIT) – Prof. S. Abramsky (University of Oxford) – Prof. L. Aceto (Reykjavik University) – Dr. G. Alfano (Brunel University) – Dr. R. Alléaume (Télécom Paris Tech) – Dr. E. Andersson (Heriot-Watt University) – Prof. W. Arendt (University of Ulm) – Dr. P. Arrighi (Université de Grenoble) – Dr. S. van Bakel (Imperial College London) – Dr. A. Baltag (University of Oxford) – Dr. K. Banaszek (Nicolaus Copernicus University) – Dr. E. Barker (University of Oxford) – Prof. A. Bar-Hen (Université Paris Descartes) – Prof. S. M. Barnett (University of Strathclyde) – Dr. G. Batt (INRIA) – Dr. A. Bayat (University College London) – Prof. P. Bellot (Télécom Paris Tech) – Dr. S. Bliudze (CEA) – Dr. S. Bouzarovski (University of Birmingham) – Prof. T. Brandes (Technische Universitt Berlin) – Dr. D. Browne (University College London) – Dr. M. di Bucchianico (London School of Economics) – Dr. S. Buhmann (Imperial College London) – Prof. A. Bundy (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. P. Buneman (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. F. Buscemi (Cambridge University) – Prof. V. Buzek (Slovak Academy of Sciences) – Prof. L. Cable (University at Albany) – Prof. A. Cabello (Universidad de Sevilla) – Prof. T. Calarco (University of Ulm) – Dr. A. del Campo (Imperial College London) – Dr. N. Cannata (Università di Camerino) – Prof. A. Carbone (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) – Prof. P. Carbone (Università IULM) – Prof. S. Carroll (Caltech) – Dr. D. Cavalcanti (ICFO - Barcelon) – Prof. B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University) – Dr. K. Chatzikokolakis (Technical University of Eindhoven) – Prof. C. W. Clark (University of Maryland) – Dr. S. R. Clark (National University of Singapore) – Dr. B. Coecke (University of Oxford) – Prof. S. B. Cooper (University of Leeds) – Prof. D. W. Corne (Heriot-Watt University) – Dr. M. Cramer (Imperial College London) – Dr. P. Crépieux (CNRS) – Prof. W. van Dam (University of California) – Prof. V. Danos (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. G. M. D’Ariano (University of Pavia) – Dr. N. Datta (University of Cambridge) – Dr. O. Dahlsten (ETH Zurich) – Dr. J. Degorre (CNRS) – Dr. J. Desharnais (Université Laval) – Prof. M. Dezani-Ciancaglini (Università di Torino) – Prof. E. E. Doberkat (Technische Universität Dortmund) – Dr. T. Douglas (University of Oxford) – Prof. D. Dubhashi (Chalmers University) – Dr. P. Dumais (Université de Montréal) – Dr. R. Duncan (Oxford University) – Prof. J. Eisert (University of Potsdam) – Prof. H. Emamirad (Poitiers University) – Dr. M. Ericsson (Uppsala University) – Dr. K. Etessami (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. B. Farzad (Brock University) – Prof. R. Fazio (Scuola Normale Superiore) – Dr. A. Farjudian (Aston University) – Dr. J. Feret (INRIA) – Dr. A. Feito (Imperial College London) – Prof. F. Ferreira (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. J. Fitzsimons (University of Oxford) – Prof. W. Fontana (Harvard University) – Prof. B. Foroughi (St. Francis Xavier University) – Dr. I. Fuentes-Schuller (University of Hertfordshire) – Prof. E. Fox Keller (MIT) – Dr. E. F. Galvão (University of Federal Fluminense) – Prof. J. Gauntlett (Imperial College London) – Dr. J. George (University of Toronto) – Dr. G. Giuli (Università di Camerino) – Dr. D. Green (The City University of New York) – Dr. D Gross (University of Hannover) – Dr. G. Gualdi (Università di Camerino) – Dr. A. R. Hadaegh (California State University San Marcos) – Prof. S. Hanneton (Paris Descartes University) – Dr. R. Harmer (CNRS) – Prof. M. Hartmann (Technische Universität München) – Prof. J. M. Henderson (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. L. Hendren (McGill University) – Dr. W. K. Hensinger (University of Sussex) – Prof. J. Hillston (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. M. Hirschowitz (CEA) – Dr. S. Hym (Université Lille 1) – Dr. M. Huth (Imperial College London) – Prof. J. Hutnyk (Goldsmiths) – Prof. M. Ivanov (Imperial College London) – Dr. A. Iwasiewicz-Wabnig (University of Oxford) – Dr. K. Jacobs, (University of Massachusetts) – Prof. H. J. Jensen (Imperial College London) – Prof. P. Jorrand (CNRS) – Prof. J.-P. Jouannaud (INRIA) – Prof. R. Jozsa (University of Bristol) – Dr. E. Kashefi (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. S. Kedad-Sidhoum (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) – Dr. A. Kent (Cambridge University) – Dr. I. Kerenidis (CNRS) – Prof. D. Kesner (Université Paris Diderot) – Prof. F. Képes (CNRS) – Dr. H. Koeppl (EPFL) – Dr. P. Kok (University of Sheffield) – Dr. J. Krivine (IHES) – Prof. R. Laflamme (University of Waterloo) – Dr. M. Laforest (Delft University of Technology) – Dr. F. Laviolette (Université Laval) – Prof. B. Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. M. Lein (University of Hannover) – Prof. G. Leuchs (Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg) – Prof. L. Libkin (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. G. Longo (CNRS) – Dr. P. van Loock (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light) Prof. N. Lütkenhaus (University of Waterloo) – Dr. D. Markham (CNRS) – Prof. H. Mairson (Brandeis University) – Dr. R. Mardare (Università di Trento) – Dr. D. Mazza (CNRS) – Dr. P.-A. Mellies (CNRS) – Prof. M. Mislove (Tulane University) – Prof. E. Mjolsness (University of California) – Prof. C. Moore (University of New Mexico) – Prof. M. Mosca (University of Waterloo) – Prof. M. Murao (University of Tokyo) – Dr. A. Murawski (University of Oxford) – Dr. R. Nagarajan (University of Warwick) – Dr. M. Navascues (Imperial College London) – Prof. B. Nordstrom (Chalmers University) – Dr. P. Ohberg (Heriot-Watt University) – Dr. A. Olaya-Castro (University College London) – Prof. C.-H. L. Ong (University of Oxford) – Dr. N. Oury (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. M. Owari (Imperial College London) – Prof. C. Palamidessi (INRIA) – Prof. P. Panangaden (McGill University) – Dr. D. Pavlovic (University of Oxford) – Dr. M. Pedicini (CNR) – Prof. O. Penrose (Heriot-Watt University) – Dr. M. Planat (Université de Franche-Comté) – Prof. M. B. Plenio (Imperial College London) – Prof. G. Plotkin (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. O. Radulescu (University of Rennes 1) – Dr. R. Rahimi Darabad (Kinki University) – Prof. D. V. G. L. N. Rao (University of Massachusetts Boston) – Prof. L. Regnier (Université de la Méditerranée) – Dr. D. Reitter (Carnegie Mellon University) – Prof. L. Roversi (Università di Torino) – Dr. T. Rudolph(Imperial College London) – Prof. P. Y. A. Ryan (University of Luxembourg) – Dr. M. Sadrzadeh (University of Oxford) – Prof. B. Sanders (University of Calgary) – Dr. R. Santhanam (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. M. Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) – Prof. W. Schleich (University of Ulm) – Prof. P. Selinger (Dalhousie University) – Dr. A. Serafini (University College London) – Dr. P. Series (University of Edinburgh) – Dr. S. Severini (University of Waterloo) – Dr. M. P. da Silva (Université de Sherbrooke) – Prof. L. Smolin (Perimeter Institute) – Dr. P. Sobocinski (University of Southampton) – Dr. R. Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) – Prof. A. Steinberg (University of Toronto) – Dr. K. Szacilowski (Jagiellonian University) – Prof. F. Taddei (Université Paris Descartes) – Prof. A. Tapp (Université de Montréal) – Prof. A. Thiele (Newcastle University) – Dr. L. Tortora de Falco (Università Roma Tre) – Dr. F. Valckenborgh (Macquarie University) – Dr. D. Varacca (Université Paris Diderot) – Dr. M. G. Vigliotti (Imperial College London) – Dr. S. Virmani (University of Strathclyde) – Prof. N. Vitanov (Sofia University) – Prof. P. Wadler (University of Edinburgh) – Prof. B. Werner (INRIA) – Prof. R. F. Werner (Technical University of Braunschweig) – Dr. M. Zoli (Università di Camerino) – Prof. E. Zucca (Università di Genova)
