ANN ARBOR, MI — After many years of speaking out before City Council, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani is eyeing a seat at the table. 
 
The Ardmoor Avenue resident publicly announced her campaign this week, vowing to challenge 4th Ward incumbent Jack Eaton in the August 2020 Democratic primary. 
 
An Iran native, Savabieasfahani has regularly demonstrated before council, decrying the killing of Palestinians by the state of Israel and calling on council to pass resolutions to boycott Israel and to call for an end to United States military aid for Israel. 
 
Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist who does grant-funded research internationally, also is frustrated about what she considers a lack of progress on addressing threats to the city’s drinking water supply, including the Gelman dioxane plume and PFAS. 
 
She’s been regularly attending forums and speaking out about those issues… 
 
It’s time to “put the shovel to the ground and clean it up now,” said Savabieasfahani, who wants to put a property tax proposal before voters to fund an aggressive cleanup…