Authorities in Iran have arrested a university professor on security charges and “suspicious foreign links,” Iranian media reported on Monday. The semiofficial Mehr news agency identified the professor as Saeed Madani, but did not provide details or say when and where he was taken into custody. The report said the academic had met with allegedly suspicious foreign citizens and carried messages from them to local activists in Iran. Madani, a sociology professor at Tehran’s government-run Allameh University, was also an activist, said Mehr. He was summoned by the courts several times in the past…