Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani (born 1937) in Zanjan is a hardline Iranian politician and cleric.
Zanjani, an ethnic Iranian Azeri, is known for being the only cleric president of University of Tehran. Zanjani holds no secular academic degree and was appointed by Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, the minister of Science, Research, and Technology in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet in 27 December 2005. Before his selection, the president of the University of T...
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Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani (born 1937) in Zanjan is a hardline Iranian politician and cleric.
Zanjani, an ethnic Iranian Azeri, is known for being the only cleric president of University of Tehran. Zanjani holds no secular academic degree and was appointed by Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, the minister of Science, Research, and Technology in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet in 27 December 2005. Before his selection, the president of the University of Tehran was elected by the faculty members. After his establishment as the president of University of Tehran, many students protested in front of the Central Library, where the establishment ceremony was held.
At the time of his appointment as the chancellor of Tehran University, Zanjani was a lecturer with a ranking equivalent to "associate professor". However after his appointment, He and his allies tried to make a fake academic degree and university ranking for him. As an example Tehran University launched a webpage about his background...
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