Amir H. Ladan

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Amir H. Ladan was born December 5, 1943 in Tehran, Iran; moved to Austria and Germany in 1959 and then to the ‎United States in 1964. A graduate of Woodrow Wilson in Humanities, and the University of ‎Illinois Chicago Campus in Political Science; he also attended Industrial Management Institute ‎‎(IMI). He established Defense Organization for Freedom (DOF) in Chicago in 1968 to promote ‎Human Rights, Justice and Democracy in Iran. Returned to Iran in 1973; set up DOF as a ‎coordinating committee for activities against the monarchy; participated in the Revolution of ‎ ‎1978-79; was imprisoned by Khomeini’s government and placed on death row (photo 2) along ‎ with 511 other activists, political leaders and industrialist ; 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 He is a researcher, writer and a political activist and lives with his wife Zelda in Florida.‎ Some of his articles have appeared in the following Iranian sites: Asre-nou.net / Akhbar-rooz.com / Peykeiran.com / Roshangari.net and more.