While he calls for the destruction of America, his daughter, Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, has been embedded in the U.S. for years, exploiting the very system her father seeks to destroy. For ten years, Ali Larijani served as the head of state broadcasting (IRIB), where he pioneered the use of forced televised confessions obtained through systematic physical and psychological torture. He personally oversaw the production of the notorious documentary Hoviat (Identity), designed to destroy the reputations of democratic activists and political dissidents before their state-sanctioned executions.
There is no ethical framework that justifies Emory University providing a platform to the daughter of a man who spent a decade mastering the art of torture against his own people. By employing her, Emory is spitting in the face of every victim tortured in Evin Prison under her father’s watch. ITFSA asserts that Emory’s financial relationship with Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani constitutes a direct violation of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR) and OFAC federal mandates. The Larijani family is the global face of systemic corruption in Iran; Ali’s brother, Sadegh, was exposed for holding 63 personal bank accounts to divert hundreds of millions in public funds, while the family has been implicated in $2.8 billion embezzlement scandals.
