کلاس‌های بی‌‌استاد؛ تداوم سرکوب در دانشگاه‌ها و فرافکنی «خودی»ها

در ادامه این اطلاعیه آمده «یک نفر از اعضای هیئت علمی که بدون اطلاع دانشگاه از کشور خارج شده است» و «۳ عضو هیئت علمی نیز در سن قانونی بازنشست شده‌اند.»

روابط عمومی وزارت علوم همچنین مدعی شده که «۵ نفر از اعضای هیات علمی دانشگاه‌ها صرفا از پست مدیریتی خود استعفا داده‌ و یا جابجا شده‌»، «۳ عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه دارای پرونده قضایی بیرون از دانشگاه هستند»، «۷ نفر از اعضای هیئت علمی دانشگاه‌ها دارای حکم از هیأت رسیدگی تخلفات انتظامی اعضای هیئت علمی هستند» و «۳ عضو هیئت علمی نیز در هیئت رسیدگی تخلفات انتظامی اعضای هیات علمی پرونده دارند».

در این اطلاعیه آمده که «۷ عضو هیئت علمی نیز بدون رابطه استخدامی و به صورت حق التدریس در دانشگاه‌ها تدریس می‌کردند که با اتمام دوره قرارداد دیگر در آن دانشگاه تدریس نمی‌کنند و در نهایت ۳ نفر از ۵۸ عضو هیئت علمی تعلیق شده، به دانشگاه‌های زیرمجموعه وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی تعلق دارند و ۱۷ نفر نیز در دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی مشغول فعالیت بوده‌اند.»

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The repressive process of dismissal, suspension and forced retirement of professors from universities all over the country continues, every day the news of the removal of a number of university professors is published.
– Supporting last year’s protests and protesting the widespread repression of protesting citizens in the street and students in the university are common features of professors who have recently been fired, suspended or forced to retire.
– Repression of professors, which the reformist media refer to as “unification” and “purification”, has been taken as a way to secure the atmosphere of universities on the eve of the anniversary of the protests.

The repressive process of dismissal, suspension and forced retirement of professors from universities across the country continues. Every day the news of the removal of a number of university professors is published.

Yesterday, the Telegram channel of the students’ union councils of the country announced that Sara Malekan, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Management of Amir Kabir University, has been banned from teaching at this university.

According to this report, Sara Malekan returned to the university after her maternity leave to receive the curriculum, but she was met with a termination letter. The student union councils of the country have explained that this professor has been critical of the management and security environment of Amirkabir University during the past year.

In one of the latest examples of the removal of professors that became the media today, Wednesday, September 6, 2023, the United Students Telegram channel announced on Tuesday, September 5, the dismissal of Maham Miqani, a professor of the Faculty of Performing Arts of Tehran University of Fine Arts, and wrote that this dismissal was done without any notice and only to The phone number has been notified to him.

This university professor wrote on his Instagram page: “At least I’m happy when they called today to say that I was fired from Tehran University. I wasn’t asleep. Maybe in the last sixty and seventy days I have not been awake at that hour. Today, I even went to buy hot bread and because my card was not accepted, I did not pay. Although I promised the next time, I couldn’t say jokingly: I won’t see you again! And in my mind, I can’t imagine the performance of that boy I saw on Instagram. Unbeknownst to me, they call me an hour later and say: We cannot be of service to you due to a series of other issues. And I waited, maybe they will say your tuition fees for the past three semesters… but they didn’t mention it, and someone who knows that his tuition fees for three semesters is not even half of his one month’s rent is not making light of himself.”

Story writer and dramatist Maham Miqani is one of the professors who stopped his classes last year in the middle of the protests of the national movement in protest against the detention of students and wrote on the Instagram social network: “My life has almost no content other than writing and teaching, but until now that the protesting students are in prison, until they can sit at the classroom desk, I consider myself obliged not to continue teaching as their little teacher.

Supporting last year’s protests and protesting the widespread repression of protesting citizens in the street and students in the university is the common denominator of the professors who were fired, suspended or forced to retire during the past weeks. These professors either supported the protesting people and students on social networks or in the classroom, or criticized and protested the government’s repressions.

Also, Mojtabi Pourbakhsh, TV presenter and sports reporter and professor of physical education at Azad University of Tehran, who was banned from broadcasting last year, has now been expelled from the university.

By publishing his dismissal letter, he wrote that “I am very grateful for the kindness of the elders of sports science for inviting me, the youngest, to teach at the university where I studied. It seems that there was no chance for me to be more at the service of Central Tehran University and its professors, colleagues and students. And I’m grateful to the competent authorities who follow with complete care so that I don’t work anywhere.”

The expulsion, suspension and forced retirement of professors, which began after the victory of the 1979 revolution with the “Cultural Revolution”, has continued for the past four decades in various reformist and fundamentalist governments. All this while in the past year, after the beginning of the protests of the national movement and considering the prominent role that the student movement played in supporting the popular protests, the sensitivity towards university professors increased.

Over the past few days, the newspaper “Etemad” has discussed the process of dismissal of professors in two separate reports over the past year. In the first report, a list of 157 dismissed, suspended and forced retired professors was mentioned in the governments of Ahmadinejad, Rouhani and Raisi. Based on this, during the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration, 85 professors were removed from the universities, 14 professors were removed from Hassan Rouhani’s administration, and 58 professors were removed from Ebrahim Raisi’s administration until the end of his tenure.

In the next report of “Etemad” newspaper, which was published on the 9th of September, the list of 52 other professors who were forced to retire, were suspended or separated from teaching was published. Although Etemad newspaper emphasized that the exact number of professors who were removed from the country’s higher education system through dismissal, suspension or forced retirement is not yet known, but it was determined that during the two years of Ebrahim Raisi’s administration and until the 9th of September, at least 110 university professors were eliminated, most of them within the past year, and half of them were fired, suspended or forced to retire in the past weeks.

In contrast to the removal of professors who have distinguished scientific degrees and have years of teaching experience in universities, “non-scientific” and “valuable” forces are embedded in university teaching positions.

Sajjad Safar Harandi, the son of Mohammad Hossein Safar Harandi, the Minister of Islamic Guidance of the Ahmadinejad government, Amir Hossein Thabiti, the anchor of the government’s Ogh TV channel, have been introduced as new university professors. Abbas Mozon, another presenter of the Islamic Republic of Iran Radio and Television, is also going to teach students about “Ritual of Life” by being hired at “Sharif” University of Technology (Aryamhar).

Also, another news has been published about the teaching of Saeed Haddadian, a famous madah and teacher of the government, in the master’s degree in literature at the University of Tehran from the coming academic year. Under the title of “defender of the sanctuary,” Haddadian has a history of volunteering in Syria in the “Quds Corps” units.

Suppression of university professors, which the reformist media refer to as “unification”, “purification”, has been taken as a way to secure the atmosphere of universities on the eve of the anniversary of the protests. A process that can be a stimulus for the resumption of student protests by creating the potential of students’ anger and dissatisfaction.

The wave of suppression of university professors has also been accompanied by criticism from “insiders”. In a statement addressed to the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, among others, the Assembly of Teachers and Researchers of Qom Seminary on Tuesday warned about the consequences of these expulsions, both for the people and the government, and described it as a “very bitter and unfortunate” event. He mentioned that “the 13th government has been seriously questioned”.

In this statement, it is stated that “why unreasonable and unacceptable decisions have been made in this government, compassionate professors have been fired, and instead there is talk of recruiting a few thousand new people?”

The Qom Seminary Teachers and Researchers Assembly is referring to a leaked confidential letter that is said to have been written by Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi to Ebrahim Raeesi, in which he mentioned that in the 2022 protests, “unaligned professors were the main cause of the crisis” in the university protests, and for this reason In the meeting of the National Security Council, it was approved to consider “special employment options for recruiting 15 thousand new faculty members”.

The Qom Seminary Lecturers and Researchers Assembly continued its statement: “With the dismissal of independent and critical professors, a little independence of the universities has also been lost and the university lacks the necessary capabilities to help the country’s progress.” By choosing a group of possibly less qualified professors, where will the fate of science and research go in this government?”

However, some other “insiders” take a stand by projecting the vast statistics of the repression of university professors. Hossein Ali Haji Deligani, a member of the Judicial and Legal Commission of the Islamic Council, said that “recently, the content that some currents put forward under the title of dismissal of professors from universities and the lists published by them are not accurate and not true.”

The member of the judicial and legal commission of the parliament pointed out that “lists and space-building were done with political motivation” and said that such actions are carried out by some political currents with political and electoral motivation on the eve of the Islamic Council elections, so that maybe with such space-building they can May the upcoming elections be successful.

The Public Relations of the Ministry of Science also responded to the claim that 58 university professors were fired in the first two years of the Ebrahim Raeesi administration and until the end of this year, and wrote that “7 out of 58 university faculty members have been dismissed due to academic stagnation or failure to change their situation or loss Scientific and general competence were put in a state of termination of cooperation with universities, two of them were put in a state of termination of cooperation due to the negative response of inquiries from institutions and security authorities.

In the continuation of this announcement, it is stated that “one faculty member has left the country without informing the university” and “3 faculty members have also retired at the legal age.”

The public relations of the Ministry of Science also claimed that “5 members of the academic faculty of the universities simply resigned from their management positions or were transferred”, “3 members of the academic faculty of the university have legal cases outside the university”, “7 members of the faculty The academic staff of the universities have a decision from the Board of Disciplinary Violations of Faculty Members” and “3 faculty members also have cases in the Board of Disciplinary Violations of Academic Faculty Members”.

In this notice, it is stated that “7 members of the faculty were also teaching in the universities without an employment relationship and on a teaching fee basis, and they will no longer teach at that university after the end of the contract period, and finally, 3 of the 58 faculty members were suspended and transferred to affiliated universities. They belong to the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, and 17 people have been working in the Islamic Azad University.