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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Nov. 26 – 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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