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Iranian-Born Academic Sues; Was Fired After Allegedly Letting Iranian Student Access NNSA Software

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023

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Iranian-Born Academic Sues; Was Fired After Allegedly Letting Iranian Student Access NNSA Software

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An Iranian-born ex-professor, fired from the University of Toledo in Ohio for allegedly allowing an Iranian citizen to access software owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration, sued the school for wrongful termination, alleging multiple counts of discrimination. E. Ishmael Parsai, a 69 year-old, nationalized U.S. citizen born in Iran, sued the university in November after he was fired in September 2022 for allegedly allowing an Iranian student in Iran access to the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Monte Carlo N-Particle software code…

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