Amir H. Ladan

Amir H. Ladan also known as A. H. Ladan, was born December 5, 1943 in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Austria and Germany in 1959 and then to the ‎United States in 1964.

He is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson in Humanities, and the University of ‎Illinois Chicago Campus in Political Science. He also attended the Industrial Management Institute ‎‎(IMI). He established the Defense Organization for Freedom (DOF) in Chicago in 1968 to promote ‎Human Rights, Justice and Democracy in Iran. Returning to Iran in 1973 he set up DOF as a ‎co-ordinating committee for activities against the monarchy and participated in the Revolution of ‎‎1978-79.

He was imprisoned by Khomeini’s government and placed on death row (photo 2) along ‎with 511 other activists, political leaders and industrialists, 504 were executed and 8 were exiled. ‎

He returned to the United States and became a naturalized American. He has written many articles ‎and given talks on American foreign policy, the Middle East, oil and Iran. He also appeared in ‎front of the Congressional Foreign Relation Committee as an expert witness.‎ [ [http://www.iranwatch.org/government/US/Congress/Hearings/hirc-072397/us-hirc-ilsa-072397.htm‎ Iran Watch] ]

He is a researcher, writer and a political activist and lives with his wife Zelda in Florida.‎

Publications

Some of his articles have appeared in the following Iranian sites:
*Asre-nou.net
*Gooya.org
*Akhbar-rooz.com
*Peykeiran.com
*Roshangari.net and
*Iranian.com

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