Early Life and Education
Saeed Hajjarian studied Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering (Fanni) in Tehran University. A young Iranian revolutionary during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he was one of the students who took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. After the revolution, he got involved with the formation of the intelligence apparatus of the newly founded Islamic Republic. Through the 1980s, he was working in the Ministry of Intelligence, where his positions included Vice Minister of Political Affairs. In the late 1980s, he left the ministry, and established an Institute for Strategic Studies under the presidency. That was where he played an important role in creating a new discourse based on democracy and rule of law for his generation of revolutionaries.
In 1977 Hajjarian was enrolled in Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program but then he shifted to political sciences and received his doctoral qualification from Tehran University in 2003.
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