Oxford investigates former Iranian president's son over DPhil application
guardian / rajeev syal
27-Mar-2011 (one comment)

The son of the former Iranian president Akbar Rafsanjani is being investigated by Oxford University after claims that his successful doctoral thesis proposal was written with the help of others.

Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former head of Iran's state-owned gas company, began a five-year DPhil course in the Iranian constitution at the faculty of oriental studies in October.

An Oxford academic has complained that the university's usual high standards have been "subverted" with the help of university insiders to allow Hashemi to study. If proven, he could be asked to leave. Hashemi, who helped co-ordinate the 2009 election opposition campaign against Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, denies the Oxford claims and has defended his application. Friends say he is the victim of a witch-hunt.

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Fred

Oil connection

by Fred on Mon Mar 28, 2011 04:35 AM PDT

In an interview with Khodnevis, Houshang Amirahmadi, the disqualified former IRR “presidential “candidate and former boss of NIAC lobbyist Trita Parsi, admits to helping Rafsanjani Jr. with his PhD studies at Oxford.

In the interview, Amorahmadi says his “friendship” with Junior Rafsi goes back to the time when he had lunch with him at the Oil Ministry in Tehran where Jr. was a top dog.

//www.khodnevis.org/persian/


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