He 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."
On June 21, the newly-appointed Tehran University Chancellor Abbass-Ali Amid-Zanjani fired 50 senior faculty members of Tehran University when faced with overwhelming protests by students.
The Iranian Resistance calls on relevant United Nations organs to condemn such suppressive, reactionary and anti-cultural measures by the mullahs’ regime against university staff and take necessary steps to bar the agents of the clerical regime from international cultural and scientific circles.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 5, 2006