Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Australian academics need not apply

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran's liberal lecturers targeted

From the above:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for liberal and secular university lecturers to be removed.

He told a group of students that they should organise campaigns to demand that the liberal teachers be sacked.

Mr Ahmadinejad said it was difficult to alter secular influences that had been in place in Iran for 150 years, but added that such a change had begun.

The move echoes campaigns of the 1980s, when hundreds of liberal university teachers and students were sacked....

Last year, an ayatollah was appointed to run Tehran University, sparking protests by students.

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