HE region’s leading university should have its funding cut as a punishment for taking “blood money” from Iran, the government was told yesterday.
Robert Halfon, a Conservative MP, also demanded an urgent investigation into Durham University’s link with a “despotic regime that tyrannises their own people”.
In a parliamentary motion, the MP – who has hounded several British universities which received funding from the Gaddafi regime in Libya – turned his attention to other Middle East dictatorships.
Mr Halfon said Durham University had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Iranian government’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
