NCRI – The mullahs’ regime intends to purge some of the most experienced faculty members of Kurdistan’s University of Medicine as well as Sunni Muslim professors under the guise of retirement, according to information received.
The inhuman plan is being implemented by the university’s Chancellor and supported by the Health Minister and certain security circles in Iranian Kurdistan. The decision to expel the professors was made subsequent to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip a few months ago to the province and was widely protested by students.
The regime began a campaign of purging and forcefully retiring university professors and members of scientific faculties who did not abide by the ominous and anti-student plans of the regime several months ago throughout the country. On June 21, 2006, Tehran University Chancellor Abbass-Ali Amid-Zanjani announced that he planned to expel 50 senior faculty members of the university as his top priority.
On September 5, 2006, Ahmadinejad said, "The educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years. Colonialism is after extending its own secular system. … Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities."
The Iranian Resistance calls on relevant international organizations to condemn such suppressive, reactionary and anti-cultural measures by the mullahs’ regime against university staff.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 14, 2007
