… [S]everal clerics and high-ranking officials have taken aim at Islamic Azad University, which is based in Tehran and has branches around the country. The university is largely run by the family of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful moderate and leading opponent of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“This university must once again be purified,” Ayatollah Muhammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, the president’s spiritual adviser, said during a meeting with new cabinet members, the Rouydad Web site reported. “This purification must occur at the management level and other levels. You see just how many who do not believe in religion, Islam and God have attended and graduated from this university.”
The Iranian government
frees itself of free thinkers.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:06PM
Whenever I see stuff like this, I always think of the book: Reading Lolita in Tehran. It was required reading for students in my lab a while back. I think UD has mentioned the author.