NCRI – The Iranian regime’s president, Mamoud Ahmadinejad, has tried to sack two university deans in a move being viewed as an act of protest against the Supreme Leader ahead of the presidential election in June.
Ahmadinejad wrote to Science Minister Kamran Daneshjoo asking for the heads of Tehran University and Tarbiat Modares University to be fired.
In his letter, the president accused Tehran dean Farhad Rahbar and Tarbat Modares dean Bijan Ranjbar of corrupt, unscientific, political and destructive behaviour out of place on a university campus.
But supporters of Ali Khamenei saw the gesture as a protest against the Supreme Leader. The parliament’s Education Commission head said: “With the Islamic presidential elections bearing, and despite of the Supreme Leader’s emphasis to keep the country’s atmosphere calm and avoid tumult, changing university principals is not in our best interest.
“Changing university deans could instigate a negative atmosphere in universities which could flow into the whole of society.”
