Kamran Daneshjoo
Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
Early life and education
His web-site, Where?, claims he has a B.Sc. degree from Queen Mary College and an M.Sc. degree from Imperial College, after which at some point he was expelled from the UK and restricted from entering the Schengen Area due to a prior arson attempt at the Penguin Book Store in London. He obtained his PhD by "The Viva examination held at Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989". His claim to have earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs; previously, his web-page mentioned the Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology as the institute granting the PhD.It was reported that when obtaining Majlis's vote of confidence, the parliament speaker Ali Larijani defended him, saying he obtained his certificate in Tehran after he was kicked out of a London college for "participating in a rally opposing" British writer Salman Rushdie.
It was also reported by the Mehr News Agency on 30 August 2009 that, following a probe into Daneshjoo's background during his ministerial nomination procedure, the chairman of the Education Committee of Iran's parliament, Ali Abbaspour-Tehrani announced: "He does not have a PhD, neither from London's Imperial College nor from the Amirkabir University."
Political career
Before being selected as Iran's minister of science, research, and technology, Daneshjoo was the head of Country's Election Headquarters for the Iranian presidential election. He is accused by opposition leaders of being one of the engineers of election fraud.Daneshjou is the co-author of an article published in the journal Engineering with Computers in 2009. In many places the text duplicates verbatim that of an earlier paper: "Ricochet of a tungsten heavy alloy long-rod projectile from deformable steel plates", published by South Korean scientists in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2002.