Kamran Daneshjoo
| Kamran Daneshjoo | |
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| Minister of Science, Research and Technology | |
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In office 9 August 2009 – 17 August 2013 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Mehdi Zahedi |
| Succeeded by | Jafar Towfighi (Acting) |
| Governor of Tehran | |
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In office 29 August 2005 – 16 July 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Ali Akbar Rahmani |
| Succeeded by | Morteza Tamadon |
| Personal details | |
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2 February 1956 Damghan, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
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Kamran Daneshjoo (Persian: کامران دانشجو) (born 2 February 1956) is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
His web-site, Where?, claims he has a Bs.C. degree from Queen Mary College (UK) and a 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". His claim to having earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs; previously, his web-page mentioned the Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology as the institute granting the Ph.D.
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.
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."
Before being selected as Iran's minister of science, research, and technology, Daneshjoo was the head of Country's Election Headquarters for the Iranian presidential election, 2009. He is accused by opposition leaders of being one of the engineers of election fraud.
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