ICE agents seized graduate student Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian national pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama, from his home near the university in March 2025. There was no apparent reason for his arrest and the university was cooperative with his oppressors. This opinion piece by Brian Lyman for the Montgomery Advertiser pretty well sums up the issues raised by the University of Alabama’s complicit response to this crisis. In  light of the resistance by Harvard University to the executive branch’s overreach, the Doroudi event is an even larger embarrassment for “the Capstone.”

Be sure to read the Lyman article here:

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/05/26/welcome-to-the-university-of-alabama-hope-some-of-you-have-an-attorney-brian-lyman/83786155007/