campuses authorities. CHRIS O'BRIEN reports.
Documents which show the readiness DI academic registrars la hand over the Dames or raman shidents to the embassy without consultntion are quoted in the February issuc of National Student, the paper of the National Union of Students. This is the latest in a food of information since Challenge first un covered details of being carried cut by a Kent University lecturer called Chris Hale for the iranian emhassy.
-HUMAN RIGHTS Most interesting statement of the Briciah D.E. Tatham of the Foreign Office Middle East Department in response to a reschstion trOI Keat sodents union. He cass that Foreign Secretary Owen attaches ereat importance to the question of human rights bucthat In the case of Iran, we complicity of some college value our cluse economic links with a country which supphe about a guarter of our oil and is Middle East. We also have CErTain ObiLeaDoos to Iran a our ally in the Central Trea Organisation (CENTO), wlsch we regard as an important source of stability in the Tarbam adds that we believe That 1180 1a5 made succi beatl progress this year in improving TILLESI probably thinking of the 10,000 arrested just around the time he was writing in Nevember.
College authorities seem to have the same happy go-lucky attitude towards their Tranian students? welfare.
explained in our original article the Hale survey was only Jatest in a series, and that Habib A. Dashi, the embassy's educatsonal counsellor, had conducted such a survey himselt two years ago.
These latest documents survey, Many of them, such as •Fomign and Commonwanith Difice Brighton Polytechnic, Polytechnic, Polytechnic of the South Bank and Hudderstield Polytechnic had no hesitation Dashti claims that he is only Interested in obtaining wumbers of students. In which case, why ask for names? As we with SAVAK the These would he Switch makes past to mount any SCHOLDE ITAR the question.
Leeds Government genuine independent sation aclion.
As we have explained before, there is documentary evidence of'cooperation of embassy scafi the Iranian secres police. There is no doubt that the results of surveys Tike immodiately available to SAVAK. It is this many Iranian students change their names.
National Student has done a considerable service by making this intormation public. IL has provided the raw material for a pational campaign against college collaboration with Iran. But the ves has tailed in the serious and docsn't even have a national policy on The overscas student popu lation is increasingly coraged al and LUICEL policies, and at the failure of the NUS Ieadership to back January, their grievanos or to allow The DrEAME DI OUCESeAs students within the NUS. So now is the moment to turn an undoubted journahstis scoop into political
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Further information has emerged, revealing the extent of Iranian government surveillance on British
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