University professor from province of Lorestan fired for insulting Fuehrer Mullah Khamenei

Iran Press News: Hamid Rahimi, professor of economics from the college of administrative Sciences and economics of Lorestan university was fired. Rahimi announced this news to the reporter the regime-run news agency ILNA and said: “In the winter of 2006 and after my contract cycle with the university ended and came up for extension, I was informed that my contract will not be renewed because I was not mindful of the limitations of the [regime’s] mandate. I was getting paid until mid-September and I was assigned classes to teach for the new fall term but in mid October when college officials announced that since my contract had run out and they would not renew it, that I had no right to show up in class anymore. According to the faculty officials, the orders came from the university officials who asked for my immediate dismissal; No one sent a copy of such a letter to me however.”

Rahimi indicated that this was apparently not initiated by the officials of the ministry of science or the university but due to a report by 2 or 3 individuals at the University of Lorestan. He said: “I am not involved in any political activity and I think that a few of the comments I made in private discussions in the university gym has caused this action. Banning me from appearing in class met with a strong reaction from the students who protested my dismissal and demanded to have me restored to my position but the university officials were threatened by the reaction of the students, and this led them to force the students to stop protesting; they went so far as to photograph the students in order to intimidate them.”

Moosavi, the educational deputy from the college of administrative sciences and economics of the Lorestan University commenting on the matter said: “Other than insulting the person of the supreme leader which was divulged to us by several of the employees of university, this individual had many other issues such as several research offenses.”