Minister of Science, Research, and Technology Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi of Iran

Zahedi has 15 scientific articles in ISI with very few citations (most of them self citations.
Zahedi has expelled dozens of politically active students and those who were working in internal newspaper of university by refusing to enroll them for the new academic year (Fall 2006.
Zahedi has been a member and head of Kerman city council since 2002.
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Iran's president has appointed a mathematician as the country's new science minister.
TEHRAN, Dec 15--Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi said Iran ranks 30th among leading scientific countries.
Speaking at the ceremony to commemorate research and technology at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults on Saturday, Zahedi said last year patents have been issued for some 100 inventions by the Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Mehr News Agency reported.
TEHRAN, July (MNA) -- Following daughter of Prophet Mohammad, Hazrat Fatima Zahra (SA), Iranian female athletes are faithful, healthy, and skilled, Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi said in the western city of Hamedan last Monday.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 9th Sports Olympiad for Female University Students, Zahedi said that Iranian women play a significant role in different aspects of the society.
Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi said that information and communications technology `ICT` is one of the sections the government and system insist on investing in them.
Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi said Iran spends millions of dollars on developing nanotechnology each year.
It was later disclosed that Zahedi had never set foot in Cambridge University, and that the ritzy award had in fact been “bought” from a private institute.
Mahmoud Afkhami, a sociologist who teaches in several universities in Tehran, said Zahedi was widely despised among Iran’s academics, who see him as a radical Islamist who owes his rise to complete loyalty to the country’s religious rulers.
President David Leebron of Rice University who accompanied Skorton on the trip said the meeting with Zahedi was on the schedule before departure for Iran, adding that other officials from Zahedi’s department were in attendance.
NCRI - Following widespread uprisings by students in Iran and particularly the brave demonstration by the students at Polytechnic University (Amir-Kabir University), the Minister of Higher Education of the mullahs' regime Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi met with a number of hand-picked paramilitary Bassij students and Revolutionary Guards Corps members who are tasked with spying on university students.
Zahedi was appointed to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet for the sole purpose of suppressing students and combating the increasing number of demonstrations and uprisings.
Mohammad Mehdi ZahediMohammad Mehdi Zahedi Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi is an Iranian politician and the minister of science and technology in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet.
President David Leebron of Rice University, who accompanied Skorton on the trip, said the meeting with Zahedi was unexpected, adding that other officials from Zahedi’s department were in attendance.
Zahedi said that university students make up about 3.
admissions chief at the Science Ministry, is a "pious.