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Pezeshkian urges elites to help foil enemy plots
President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday called on Iranian universities and scientific centers to take the lead in solving the country’s mounting challenges, saying that reliance on experts and scholars, not slogans or directives, is the only way to steer the nation out of its current difficulties.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2025–26 academic year at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Pezeshkian said Iran’s problems, from water scarcity to land subsidence and pollution, could only be overcome through the knowledge and determination of specialists “regardless of their dress, manners or appearance,” president.ir reported.
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