Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi
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| Head of Parliament of Iran's Commission on Education and Research | |
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Assumed office 12 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Ali Abbaspour |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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Assumed office 28 May 2012 |
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| Constituency | Kerman and Ravar |
| Majority | 150,825 |
| Iranian Ambassador to Malaysia | |
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In office 22 November 2009 – 11 October 2011 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Mehdi Khandabadi |
| Succeeded by | Jalal Firouznia |
| Minister of Science, Research and Technology | |
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In office 19 August 2005 – 9 August 2009 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Jafar Towfighi |
| Succeeded by | Kamran Daneshjoo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1953 (age 63–64) Kerman, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
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| Alma mater | Tarbiat Modares University |
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Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi (born in 1953 Kerman) is an Iranian politician and was the former minister of science and technology in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first cabinet from 2005 to 2009. He was approved by Iran's parliament with the least number of supporting votes possible (supporters had only one vote more than opponents). He was elected as a Member of the Parliament in 2012 election. He was reelected in 2016. On 1 January 2017, he was announced that he would run for presidency in 2017 presidential election. His nomination was rejected by the Guardian Council.
Zahedi received his PhD in Mathematics from Kerman University where he is currently a "full professor". However, his scientific qualification has been questioned widely by Iranian scientific community. Zahedi has 15 scientific articles in ISI with very few citations (most of them self citations). He repeatedly called himself "one of the greatest mathematicians of the time". With such a minor scientific achievement he was promoted to full professorship in 1999 (when he had only published 11 articles). Zahedi's profile claims he is a member of New York Academy of Sciences. An investigation by BBC Persian in July 2009 debunked this claim. His profile also claims that he was named among the most prominent Mathematicians of the century by American Mathematical Society for which there is no evidence found on American Mathematical Society website.
In 2006, the Ahmadinejad government systematically forced numerous Iranian scientists and University professors to resign or to retire. It has been referred to as a second cultural revolution. The policy has been said to replace current professors with younger ones. Many University professors received letters indicating their early retirement unexpectedly.
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