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Iran appoints cleric to head Tehran University |
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Saturday, 26 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus– Iran’s conservative government appointed a senior cleric
with no academic experience as the head of Tehran University, a
state-run news agency reported on Saturday.
The inauguration of Ayatollah Amid Zanjani is set to take place on campus during a ceremony on Sunday.
During the early days of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Zanjani, an ally of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, headed the komiteh in Tehran’s eastern
Jaleh and Farah-Abad districts.
The Komitehs were local police stations
that also served as prosecution chambers. They achieved much notoriety
as the power base of radical Islamist vigilantes who imposed rigorous
religious laws on the population.
Under new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s social
institutions such as school, universities, and hospitals have been
experiencing renewed political and social crackdown.
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