Ignoring Scientific Merit in Appointments
Zahedi's appointments and dismissals at the Science, Research and Technology Ministry were not based on merit. University chancellors had been formerly appointed after consulting university professors. However, the situation changed as Zahedi become Iran's minister of science and the criterion of meritocracy has been ignored.
Zahedi appointed Abbasali Amid Zanjani, a cleric with no academic degree as the chancellor of Tehran University.
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