Reza Faraji-Dana (born 1960 in

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) is a reformist Iranian politician and the former minister of Science, Research and Technology under President

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. He served as president of

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, and as the former president of the Iranian branch of the

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Biography

Reza Farji-Dana was born in 1960 in

and received his math diploma from Hakim Nezami high school in 1978. In the same year, he obtained an admission from the

Shiraz University Shiraz University ( fa, دانشگاه شیراز ''Dāneshgāh-e-Shirāz'', formerly known as Pahlavi University دانشگاه پهلوی ''Dāneshgāh-e Pahlavi'') is a public university located in Shiraz, Fars, Iran, established in 1946. ...

in electrical engineering. He studied electrical engineering at the

, and at the

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in Ontario, Canada. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1993. He is currently the professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tehran.

Dismissal

Iranian parliament dismissed him as Minister of Science on 20 August 2014. The conservative MPs accused him of permitting students involved in 2009–10 Iranian election protests to continue their education in public universities. He was also accused of appointing senior department heads from people who were involved in mass protests of 2009. Some of the PMs who voted for the dismissal of Farajidana were allegedly benefiting from unlawful scholarships in previous government and the list of those who granted unlawful scholarships has been revealed during the ministration of Farajidana. He was removed from office through

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in August 2014.

References

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