While dealing with a extreme scarcity of academics and contending with the difficult situation of colleges, the place no less than three million college students are learning in dilapidated and dangerous environments, the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Education has undertaken a noteworthy initiative.
In alignment with the federal government’s technique to exert affect and mildew college students’ views, the Minister of Education, Reza Morad Sahrai, has enlisted 19,000 clerics and students underneath the designation of ‘instructional academics.’ This transfer implicitly discloses the ministry’s intention to deploy a cleric in every college.
Sahrai, affirming the continued recruitment of students to be stationed in colleges, asserted, “We emphasize the continuation of the presence of clergy in colleges.” Furthermore, he highlighted the implementation of the ‘Mehrab Plan,’ revealing plans for 64,000 congregational prayers to be carried out in colleges.
Notably, Sahrai unveiled the ‘plan to assemble 9,000 mosques in colleges’ as a pivotal motion, emphasizing the continued development of seven,280 prayer rooms on the college and academic middle ranges.
Despite alarming revelations by Qassem Ahmadi Lashki, the Legal Deputy and Parliamentary Affairs consultant of the Ministry of Education, who, on December 17, 2023, disclosed that roughly three million Iranian college students are learning in unsafe and harmful instructional areas, the ministry continues its non secular -centric initiatives. Lashki warned that within the occasion of an earthquake, these college students’ lives could be in danger.
Even the Tasnim information company beforehand reported that over 11% of the 107,000 colleges in Iran lack municipal and rural piped water, with greater than 5,000 colleges missing correct rest room services. Regime officers have made assurances to rebuild dilapidated colleges and tackle non-standard instructional environments, but these guarantees stay unfulfilled.
Sahrai’s current statements underscore the ministry’s prioritization of imposing the regime’s medieval ideology on college students over safeguarding their lives and well being in deteriorating colleges.
He asserted that the ‘elementary transformation of training’ necessitates college students to own forty traits, together with being monotheistic and prayerful, with an emphasis on prayer as a cornerstone in training.
In a bid to institutionalize non secular practices, Sahrai detailed the institution of 32 research and specialised commissions on the provincial stage on the subject of prayer. Furthermore, he introduced the initiative to coach 20,000 muezzins within the nation’s colleges. Another program, the ‘School, Mosque, Family Plan,’ is alleged to be applied in 3,600 colleges.
Despite the present deployment of quite a few seminary college students and clerics in colleges with varied designations, the regime plans to rent an extra 19,000 clerics as ‘instructional academics.’ Sahrai justified this transfer by stating, “We have a scarcity of instructional academics in colleges,” citing the institution of an academic academics campus in Qom as a part of the recruitment agenda.
Sahrai, alluding to the coed protests through the nationwide rebellion in opposition to the regime in 2022, characterised the hiring of clerics and the growth of non secular packages in colleges as an ‘lively combat’ in opposition to the scholars.
The Ministry of Education’s technique additionally entails hiring feminine seminary college students as ‘main academics’ and dispatching college students to varsities underneath the title of ‘soldier students.’ The inflow of seminary college students as academics within the nation’s colleges has intensified, with no less than 24,000 taking part within the ‘Amin’s plan.’
This 12 months alone, an extra 4 thousand seminary college students have been added, bringing the entire variety of seminary college students and clerics underneath the ‘Amin Plan’ to over 28,000. With the upcoming recruitment of 19,000 extra students and clerics, the entire quantity primarily based in colleges is projected to succeed in no less than 47,000 people.
The Ministry’s current statements point out a broader plan to escalate the variety of clerics stationed in colleges to no less than 107,000, akin to the entire variety of colleges in Iran. This suggests a plan to assign no less than one scholar and cleric to every college.
These measures have gained momentum following the nationwide rebellion in 2022, the place college students held protests, leading to colleges reworking into protest facilities. The regime responded with mass arrests and forceful actions, together with casualties amongst college students.
Ahmad Alireza Beigi, a member of the regime’s parliament, acknowledged the arrest of no less than ‘200 college students’ in Tehran alone. However, the regime has shunned offering complete statistics on the variety of college students killed and detained.
Additionally, tons of of feminine college students suffered poisoning and accidents through the wave of the ‘suspicious poisoning of college college students,’ which originated in Qom in November 2022 and subsequently unfold all through the nation.