Collective efforts needed to counter US unchecked power: Sharif University
TEHRAN – Sharif University of Technology has issued a statement signed by 103 faculty members warning against the global threats of the unchecked power of the United States and the need for a collective responsibility to counter them.
We, faculty members of Sharif University of Technology, believe the current trajectory of the United States’ foreign policy has crossed beyond the bounds of international law. These policies are not merely a challenge to the security of Iran as an independent state; they represent a profound threat to international peace and the global order.
The United States has opened new horizons for state-sponsored violence through the assassination of scientists, the abduction of officials, and the legitimization of aggression against civilian populations. This school of thought, in its own omnipotence, has led the American leadership to dismantle international institutions and norms, resulting in the death of countless innocent people worldwide. From the ruins of Gaza and Yemen to the besieged sovereignty of Venezuela and Libya, the imprint of this destructive doctrine is undeniable.
This represents a deliberate degradation of the international system from a state of civil society to a Hobbesian state of nature, where raw power and escalating violence replace law and dialogue. The policies being deployed against Iran’s nation— overt military intimidation, covert operations, and economic strangulation designed to incite internal fragmentation —demand global attention and resistance now, before another region or nation would be ruined by the consequences of the
U.S. imperial aggression.
We recognize a universal human responsibility. We must all—irrespective of our differing political beliefs—work to inform the global publics about the catastrophic consequences of these malicious policies. We must unequivocally condemn this pattern of intervention and violence.
As scholars and citizens of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, we call for the mobilization of all national, regional, and international capacities to resist complicity with these inhumane policies. We must unite to prevent the world from descending further into a state where might makes right and where powerful actors are free to act without law or limits.
Our stance is one of the principles in defense of human dignity and a just world order. We stand in solidarity with all peoples who are threatened by the lashes of unrestrained power and violence, conscious that in our own homeland, Iran, the time for vigilance and collective action is now.
Signed,
A group of concerned faculty members Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran
1. Farhad Ardalan
2. Mehdi Golshani
3. Saeed Sohrabpour
4. Mohammad Ali Kouchakzadeh
5. Rahim Faez
6. Rasool Jalili
7. Masoud Darbandi
8. Saeed Behzadipour
9. Mohammad Etemadi
10. Seyyed Abbas Mousavi
11. Aria Alasty
12. Hassan Salarieh
13. Alireza Bahrampour
14. Ali Meghdari
15. Azam Iraji zad
16. Seyed Mohammad Mahdavi
17. Hadi Nobahari
18. Hamid Behroozi
19. Amir Hossein Jahangir
20. Jafar Habibi
21. Behzad Ahi
22. Ali Fotowat Ahmady
23. Mohammad Reza Arasti
24. Hossein Asadi
25. Javad Akbari
26. Karim Mazaheri
27. Reza Yousefi
28. Mohammad Mirzaei
29. Abbas Mozaffar
30. Mohammad Haeri
31. Mohammad Taeibi Rahni
32. Mahmoud Bahmanabadi
33. Mahmoud Saadat Foumani
34. Mostafa Taqavi
35. Bijan Vosoughi Vahdat
36. Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Malaek
37. Hassan Mahani
38. Mohsen Masihi
39. Alireza Zarei
40. Mohammad Sharifkhani
41. Reza Moghadasi
42. Ebrahim Souzanchi Kashani
43. Naser Karami
44. Ayoub Torkian
45. Mohammad Farahani
46. Mohammad Outokesh
47. Omid Akhavan
48. Mohammad Bazargan
49. Aliakbar Abolhasani
50. Seyyed Mohammad Karbasi
51. Mojtaba Mahsuli
52. Mehdi Kargarian
53. Siavash Bayat-Sarmadi
54. Asad Kalantarian
55. Mohammad Mahdi Ahadian
56. Saeid Jamshidi
57. Ebrahim Azadegan
58. Ali Khademi
59. Hamed Manouchehri Kousha
60. Mahdi Fateh Rad
61. Noushin Chatrchi
62. Farid Ashtiani
63. Mohamad Mahdi Rohani Mashhadi
64. Hossein Nejat
65. Hossein Khajepour
66. Alireza Moazezi Mehretehran
67. Seyed Ali Taheri Khorramabadi
68. Mohammad Reza Morad
69. Amin Fazli
70. Akram Avami
71. Saeed Eini
72. Kaivan Mohammadi
73. Masoud Shadnam
74. Marzieh Saghafian
75. Hoda Mahammadzade
76. Mohammad Hossein Yassaee
77. Abbas Ebrahimi
78. Matin Hashemi
79. Saeed Tajrishy
80. Hamed Sadeghi
81. Ata Pourmahmoud
82. Alireza Sharifi
83. Seyed Ali Akbar Sajadi
84. Yasaman-Sadat Borghei
85. Hossein Askaripour
86. Mohammad Reza Razvan
87. Rouhollah Amiri
88. Seyyed Ali Emami Khansari
89. Mohamad Sadegh Karimi
90. Maryam Mirkamali
91. Alireza Jahantigh
92. Hamoon Tahmassebi
93. Farzam Fotovat
94. Mohammad Ali Ahmadi
95. Mana Meskar
96. Masoumeh Koochak Shooshtari
97. Mohammad Hadi
98. Javad Ebrahimi Broojeni
99. Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian
100. Siavash Ahmadi
101. Moslem Habibi
102. Amir Nourani
103. Mohammad Hasan Ravanji