Ali Shakeri (Persian:علی شاکری) is anIranian-American businessman and activist. He graduated from theUniversity of Texas with a business administration degree. He serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at theUniversity of California, Irvine.[1] Shakeri was one of four dual-nationality Iranian-Americans detained by theIranian government in May 2007.[2]
Shakeri has also been a founding and active member[3] ofEttehade Jomhourikhahan-e Iran (EJI), which advocates ademocratic andsecular republic inIran.[4]
In 2007 Shakeri went to Iran to visit his mother, who was ill and died during his visit. On May 8, 2007, while in Iran, he was detained by theIranian government,[5] one of four Americans detained in a short period.[6] The others wereKian Tajbakhsh,Haleh Esfandiari and Parnaz Azima. On June 8, 2007, theIranian Student News Agency confirmed the detention.[7] He was released on September 25, 2007,[8] and the other three were also released "in phases, from prison or allowed to leave the country ... in the run-up to President Ahmadinejad's" September 2007 speech before the United Nations.[9] Shakeri called theAmerican Iranian Council on October 2 to thank the AIC and its members for diplomatic actions taken to gain his release from prison in Iran.[10]
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