Kamran Daneshjoo

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Kamran Daneshjoo
Daneshjoo in 2014
Minister of Science, Research and Technology
In office
3 September 2009 – 17 August 2013
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded byMehdi Zahedi
Succeeded byJafar Towfighi (Acting)
Acting Minister of Interior
In office
4 November 2008 – 24 December 2008
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded byAli Kordan
Succeeded bySadegh Mahsouli
Governor of Tehran
In office
29 August 2005 – 16 July 2008
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded byAli Akbar Rahmani
Succeeded byMorteza Tamadon
Personal details
Born (1956-02-02) 2 February 1956 (age 68)
Damghan, Iran
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Kamran Daneshjoo (Persian: کامران دانشجو; born 2 February 1956) is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.

Early life and education

His web-site, Where?, claims he has a Bs.C. degree from

Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989".[1] His claim to have earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs;[2] previously, his web-page mentioned the Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology as the institute granting the PhD[3]

It was reported that when obtaining

Majlis's vote of confidence, the parliament speaker Ali Larijani defended him, saying he obtained his certificate in Tehran after he was kicked out of a London college for "participating in a rally opposing" British writer Salman Rushdie.[4]

It was also reported by the Mehr News Agency on 30 August 2009 that, following a probe into Daneshjoo's background during his ministerial nomination procedure, the chairman of the Education Committee of Iran's parliament, Ali Abbaspour-Tehrani announced: "He [Kamran Daneshjoo] does not have a PhD, neither from London's Imperial College nor from the Amirkabir University."[5]

Political career

Before being selected as Iran's minister of science, research, and technology, Daneshjoo was the head of

election fraud
.

Daneshjou is the co-author of an article published in the journal Engineering with Computers in 2009. In many places the text duplicates verbatim that of an earlier paper: "Ricochet of a tungsten heavy alloy long-rod projectile from deformable steel plates", published by South Korean scientists in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2002.[3]

Plagiarism

On 22 September 2009, Nature, the prominent British scientific journal, reported that "large chunks of text, figures, and tables in a 2009 paper co-authored by Kamran Daneshjou, Iran's science minister, are identical to those of a 2002 paper published by South Korean researchers".[3] On 25 September 2009, Springer, the publisher that Daneshjou's paper, was submitted to, retracts paper by Iran's science minister.[6] Similar plagiarism has been found in three other papers by Daneshjou.[7] Iranian scientists said they intend to press for a plagiarism inquiry.[8] Another paper for which he took credit has since been retracted by Engineering with Computers.[9]

Gender segregation in universities

Daneshjou has also called for the segregation of university students based on gender in accordance with the "Islamic worldview".[10]

Ideological cleansing of universities

Daneshjoo has stated that he intends to remove university professors and students who do not have a proven commitment to Islam and the

Velayat-e faqih. He has also blamed much of the current post-election unrest in Iranian universities on "subversive" behavior by students and professors.[11][12]

Sanctions

Daneshjoo has been on the sanction list of

the European Union since December 2011 due to his alleged role in the Iran's missile development and nuclear program.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Daneshjo – Iran University of Science & Technology – School of Mechanical Engineering". Iust.ac.ir. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  2. ^ Persian language blogs
  3. ^ a b c "Exclusive: Paper co-authored by Iran's science minister duplicates earlier paper : Nature News Blog". Blogs.nature.com. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Iran MPs to debate oil and interior ministries". Petroleum World. 3 September 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014.
  5. ^ Mehr News Agency. 30 August 2009. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Accusations of plagiarism against Daneshjoo". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
  7. S2CID 4343522
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  8. doi:10.1038/news.2009.945
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  9. doi:10.1007/s00366-009-0147-0. If this is an intentional citation to a retracted paper, please replace {{retracted|...}} with {{retracted
    |...|intentional=yes}}.)
  10. ^ "Iranian Minister backs gender segregation in universities". Payvand Iran News. 28 November 2009. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011.
  11. ^ "Minister of Science's Statements Are Against the Iranian Constitution, Islamic Penal Code, and International Conventions". International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. 7 March 2010. Archived from the original on 16 March 2010.
  12. ^ "Iranian minister calls for political cleansing of universities". Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. 6 April 2010. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014.
  13. ^ "Council Decision 2011/783/CFSP". EU Official Gazette. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2013.

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