disillusioned with revolutionary politics. His eventual ideology has been described as neoconservative. In July 2009, Milani appeared in a United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing amidst 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, and called for imposing "multilateral and crippling sanctions" on Iranians. He also advised the congressmen not to support military invasion of Iran because it would not politically contribute to the American goal of regime change. Shortly afterwards, Iranian prosecutors in the post-election trials built a case against the defendants by connecting them to Milani, mentioning him by name in the official indictment. Hamid Dabashi criticized Milani for throwing monkey wrenches at Green Movement of Iran by supporting foreign intervention instead of grassroots democracy in Iran. Personal life Milani separated from his first wife, Fereshteh Davaran, in 1988. He lives on Stanford campus with his second wife, Jean Nyland, who is chair of Notre Dame de Namur's psychology department. Bibliography Books Essays and articles References External links Milani's Official Stanford Web Site Milani's Hoover Institution Biography 1949 births Living people Boston Review people Iranian expatriate academics Iranian dissidents Iranian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Iranian historians Iranian Iranologists Iranian democracy activists Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences faculty Notre Dame de Namur University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Hawaiʻi alumni 21st-century American historians