THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN WITHHELD TO AVOID RETALIATION. THE AUTHOR WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNISE THE WORK AND SACRIFICES OF THE LEADERS OF THE MAGNITSKY LAW MOVEMENT – INCLUDING GEOFFREY ROBERTSON, BILL BROWDER, AND OF COURSE, SERGEI MAGNITSKY.
He was 32 at the time and had already achieved a bachelor’s degree from Razi University in 2003, and a master’s degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2006.
[In Iran] strategic data infrastructure is owned by a consortium of shell companies that belong to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Evidently a bright individual, the student was granted a post-doctoral opportunity and awarded and recognised for his hard work several times.
Yet when he was granted his student visa, the Australian government seemed to have overlooked what he had been up to between 2006 and 2012.
His name is Eisa Zarepour.1,2,3
Today he is the “Minister of Communication and Information Technology of Islamic Republic of Iran” and “Assistant Professor at Iran University of Science and Technology”.
Eisa (it means ‘Jesus’ in the Farsi language) Zarepour is the person responsible for the recent shutdown of the telecommunication services and internet access in Iran. This blackout has been a
