Kamran Daneshjoo
{{short description|Iranian university professor|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|nationality = Iranian
|title = Minister of Science, Research and Technology
|term_start = 3 September 2009
|term_end = 17 August 2013
|president = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|predecessor = Mehdi Zahedi
|successor = Jafar Towfighi {{small|(Acting)}}
|title2 = Acting Minister of Interior
|president2 = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|term_start2 = 4 November 2008
|term_end2 = 24 December 2008
|predecessor2 = Ali Kordan
|successor2 = Sadegh Mahsouli
|president3 = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|term_start3 = 29 August 2005
|term_end3 = 16 July 2008
|predecessor3 = Ali Akbar Rahmani
|successor3 = Morteza Tamadon
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Kamran Daneshjoo ({{langx|fa|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 Queen Mary College (UK) and an Ms.C. degree from Imperial College, after which at some point he was expelled from the UK and restricted from entering the Schengen Area due to a prior arson attempt at the Penguin Book Store in London. He obtained his PhD by "The Viva examination held at Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989".{{cite web|url=http://www.iust.ac.ir/find-16.1458.873.en.html |title=Daneshjo – Iran University of Science & Technology – School of Mechanical Engineering |publisher=Iust.ac.ir |access-date=2013-08-01}} His claim to have earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs;{{Cite web |url=http://i25.tinypic.com/2r6lcgy.jpg |title=Persian language blogs |access-date=3 September 2009 |archive-date=14 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314032458/http://i25.tinypic.com/2r6lcgy.jpg |url-status=dead }} previously, his web-page mentioned the Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology as the institute granting the PhD{{cite web|url=http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/09/exclusive_paper_authored_by_ir.html |title=Exclusive: Paper co-authored by Iran's science minister duplicates earlier paper : Nature News Blog |publisher=Blogs.nature.com |date=2013-07-11 |access-date=2013-08-01}}
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.{{Cite web|date=3 September 2009|title=Iran MPs to debate oil and interior ministries|publisher=Petroleum World |url=http://www.petroleumworld.com/story09090307.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527202518/http://www.petroleumworld.com/story09090307.htm|archive-date=27 May 2014|url-status=live}}
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."{{Cite news|date=30 August 2009|newspaper=Mehr News Agency}}
Political career
Before being selected as Iran's minister of science, research, and technology, Daneshjoo was the head of Country's Election Headquarters for the 2009 Iranian presidential election. He is accused by opposition leaders of being one of the engineers 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.
=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". On 25 September 2009, Springer, the publisher that Daneshjou's paper, was submitted to, retracts paper by Iran's science minister.{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2009/09/springer-retracts-paper-by-ira.html |title=Accusations of plagiarism against Daneshjoo |access-date=26 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719233849/http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2009/09/springer-retracts-paper-by-ira.html |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} Similar plagiarism has been found in three other papers by Daneshjou.{{cite journal | url=http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090930/full/461578a.html | doi=10.1038/461578a | title=Iranian ministers in plagiarism row | year=2009 | last1=Butler | first1=Declan | journal=Nature | volume=461 | issue=7264 | pages=578–579 | pmid=19794465 | s2cid=4343522 | url-access=subscription }} Iranian scientists said they intend to press for a plagiarism inquiry.{{cite journal | url=http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090923/full/news.2009.945.html | doi=10.1038/news.2009.945 | title=Publisher retracts paper by Iran's science minister | year=2009 | last1=Butler | first1=Declan | journal=Nature | url-access=subscription }} Another paper for which he took credit has since been retracted by Engineering with Computers.{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00366-008-0118-x | doi=10.1007/s00366-008-0118-x | title=Retracted Article: Analysis of critical ricochet angle using two space discretization methods | year=2009 | last1=Daneshjou | first1=Kamran | last2=Shahravi | first2=Majid | journal=Engineering with Computers | volume=25 | issue=2 | pages=191–206 | s2cid=11868335 | url-access=subscription }}{{Retracted|doi=10.1007/s00366-009-0147-0|intentional=yes}}
=Gender segregation in universities=
Daneshjou has also called for the segregation of university students based on gender in accordance with the "Islamic worldview".{{Cite web|title=Iranian Minister backs gender segregation in universities|date=28 November 2009|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1295.html|publisher=Payvand Iran News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604101127/http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1295.html|archive-date=4 June 2011|url-status=live}}
=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.{{Cite web|title=Minister of Science's Statements Are Against the Iranian Constitution, Islamic Penal Code, and International Conventions |publisher=International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran |url=http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/03/daneshjoo_iran/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316191059/http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/03/daneshjoo_iran/|archive-date=16 March 2010|url-status=live|date=7 March 2010 }}{{Cite web|title=Iranian minister calls for political cleansing of universities|date=6 April 2010|publisher= Iran Human Rights Documentation Center|url=http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/human-rights-documents/aadel-collection/14156-iranian-minister-calls-for-political-cleansing-of-universities.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527211616/http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/human-rights-documents/aadel-collection/14156-iranian-minister-calls-for-political-cleansing-of-universities.html|archive-date=27 May 2014|url-status=live}}
=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.{{cite web|title=Council Decision 2011/783/CFSP|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:319:0071:0091:EN:PDF|work=EU Official Gazette|access-date=1 August 2013|date=2 December 2011}}
References
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100602191028/http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/Violent%20Aftermath.pdf Iran Human Rights Documentation Center] Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran (February 2010), New Haven, Connecticut.
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