Cabinet Choices Signal Dark Days Ahead for Iran’s Academia
15 August 2024 | Iran International
President Masoud Pezeshkian's nomination of Hossein Simayi Sarraf as Minister of Science, Research and Technology, is unsettling academics who are concerned that he will continue the university purges witnessed in recent years.
Sarraf’s nomination is particularly significant given the recent history of Iran’s universities as hotbeds of political dissent. The Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, reignited a wave of student activism that shook the foundations of the Islamic Republic…