| Nearly 40 top research institutes sever ties to leading Iranian think tank |
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| Written by Toronto Star | |
| Sunday, 17 December 2006 | |
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Nearly 40 European and North American research institutes will suspend contacts with a leading Iranian think tank that helped organize last week's conference in Tehran of Holocaust deniers, a Paris-based researcher said Saturday.The institutes, including a Canadian one, the Centre for International Studies in Victoria, have agreed to suspend ongoing programs with the Iranian Institute for Political and International Studies, or the IPIS, according to a statement issued by François Heisbourg, who organized the boycott. They have also refused to participate in IPIS meetings or to invite IPIS staff to their own forums and they will decline travel to Iran sponsored by the Iranian institute.
Nearly 40 European and North American research institutes will suspend contacts with a leading Iranian think tank that helped organize last week's conference in Tehran of Holocaust deniers, a Paris-based researcher said Saturday.The institutes, including a Canadian one, the Centre for International Studies in Victoria, have agreed to suspend ongoing programs with the Iranian Institute for Political and International Studies, or the IPIS, according to a statement issued by François Heisbourg, who organized the boycott. They have also refused to participate in IPIS meetings or to invite IPIS staff to their own forums and they will decline travel to Iran sponsored by the Iranian institute.
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