Here's more on his arrest:
Tehran - The detention of one of Iran's top scholars late last week has raised concerns here about arbitrary arrests.Read the rest. Also here and here. (Thanks: AA / M.)Friends and relatives of Ramin Jahanbegloo say he was arrested at the airport soon after he and his family returned from an extended visit to India.
His wife has refused to comment for fear that publicity may complicate matters. "I cannot say anything," she said Tuesday when contacted by telephone.
Jahanbegloo, who has doctorates in philosophy and political science from Harvard and the Sorbonne in Paris, has written and edited more than a dozen books, mostly on philosophy, in English, French and Persian. He has also written articles about Iran in newspapers and magazines abroad.
In one article he wrote for the Spanish newspaper El Pais this year, Jahanbegloo challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contention that the Holocaust was a myth. In another recent article published on the Internet, he called on Iran and the West to exercise caution in the escalating war of words over Tehran's nuclear activities.
Iranian authorities have not given any details about the arrest of Jahanbegloo, who also holds Canadian citizenship.