Article Title
Keywords
Iran, Occupy Wall Street, Peace, Intervention
Abstract
I was invited to a conference in Tehran on Occupy Wall Street. I was hesitant to accept because I feared that my criticisms of US policy through the lens of OWS might lend support to the oppressive Iranian regime, but I thought it might be an opportunity to express solidarity with the Iranian people against possible US or Israeli aggression. In the end I decided to go and found it an eye-opening experience. On my return I was attacked as a terrorist by apologists for Israel and censored by Tehran University because, in a paper I submitted at the conference sponsors' request, I compared Occupy Wall Street to the Green Movement which had been repressed in Tehran by the Iranian government.
Recommended Citation
Hammond, John L..
2012.
"An American Sociologist in Iran."
Societies Without Borders
7 (3):
364-372.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol7/iss3/5