Kamran Daneshjoo
| Kamran Daneshjoo | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Science, Research and Technology | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 9 August 2009 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Mehdi Zahedi |
| Governor of Tehran | |
| In office 29 August 2005 – 16 July 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Ali-Akbar Rahmani |
| Succeeded by | Morteza Tamadon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 2, 1956 Damghan, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
Kamran Daneshjoo (in Persian: کامران دانشجو) (born 2 February 1956) is an Iranian university professor who is currently serving as Iran's minister of Science, Research, and Technology.
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Education [edit]
His web-site claims he has a Bs.C. degree from Queen Mary College (UK) and a Ms.C. degree from Imperial College, after which at some point he was expelled from the UK and restricted from entering Schengen due to a prior attempt at committing arson at the Penguin Book Store in London. He obtained his PhD by "The Viva examination held at Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989"[1] His claim to having earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs;[2] previously, his web-page mentioned the Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology as the institute granting the Ph.D.[3]
It was reported that when obtaining Majlis's vote of confidence, the parliament speaker Ali Larijani defended him, saying he obtained his certificate in Tehran after he was kicked out of a London college for "participating in a rally opposing" British writer Salman Rushdie.[4]
It was also reported by the Mehr News Agency on August 30, 2009 that, following a probe into Daneshjoo's background during his ministerial nomination procedure, the chairman of the Education Committee of Iran's parliament, Ali Abbaspour-Tehrani announced: "He [Kamran Daneshjoo] does not have a PhD, neither from London's Imperial College nor from the Amirkabir University."
Career [edit]
Before being selected as Iran's minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Daneshjoo was the head of the headquarters for the Iranian presidential election, 2009.[5] He is accused by opposition leaders of being one of the engineers of election fraud. Kamran Daneshjou is the co-author of an article published in the journal Engineering with Computers in 2009. In many places the text duplicates verbatim that of an earlier paper: "Ricochet of a tungsten heavy alloy long-rod projectile from deformable steel plates", published by South Korean scientists in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2002.[3]
Plagiarism [edit]
On September 22, 2009, Nature, the prominent British scientific journal reported that "large chunks of text, figures, and tables in a 2009 paper co-authored by Kamran Daneshjou, Iran's science minister, are identical to those of a 2002 paper published by South Korean researchers".[3] On September 25, 2009, Springer, the publisher that Daneshjou's paper was submitted to, retracts paper by Iran's science minister.[6] Similar plagiarism has been found in three other papers by Daneshjou.[7] Iranian scientists said they intend to press for a plagiarism inquiry.[8] Another paper for which he took credit has since been retracted by Engineering with Computers.[9]
Gender segregation in universities [edit]
Daneshjou has also called for the segregation of university students based on gender in accordance with the "Islamic worldview".[10]
Ideological cleansing of universities [edit]
Daneshjoo has stated that he intends to remove university professors and students who do not have a proven commitment to Islam and the Velayat-e faqih. He has also blamed much of the current post-election unrest in Iranian universities on "subversive" behavior by students and professors.[11]
References [edit]
- ^ http://www.iust.ac.ir/find-16.1458.873.en.html
- ^ Persian language blogs
- ^ a b c http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/09/exclusive_paper_authored_by_ir.html
- ^ www.icana.ir
- ^ http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88786§ionid=351020101
- ^ Accusations of plagiarism against Daneshjoo
- ^ Further accusations of plagiarism against Daneshjoo
- ^ Plagiarism inquiry requested re Daneshjoo
- ^ www.springerlink.com
- ^ "Islamic worldview"
- ^ www.iranhumanrights.org
Source [edit]
- Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran (February 2010), New Haven, Connecticut.
