Iran Press/Iran news: In a meeting with scientific elites in Tehran on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei referred to enemy attempts to portray a false image of Iran, saying that despite the economic problems in the country, including currency fluctuations and livelihood concerns, the country’s image is quite the opposite of what “domineering foreigners” are trying to show.
The leader urged officials to benefit from the ideas and recommendations of the academics in order to improve the country’s affairs and said, "the intellectual elites‘s ideas and suggestions should be benefited from in planning the matters of the country. Some outstanding talents enjoy both a great capability of thinking and management skills— which must be made use of."
Ayatollah Khamenei mentioned that Iran should safeguard its entity via scientific development by stating,"if we do not advance in science, our enemies' threats will last permanently."
Ayatollah Khamenei attributed nation’s falling behind world’s scientific growth to neglecting science during the monarchical rules of the Pahlavis and Qajars over Iran, and maintained, "we have lagged behind the global scientific movement for 200 years,: this is because of the Iranian talent and academic elite have been ignored."
Ayatollah Khamenei urged the academic and science professionals to promote Iran’s share in science production; he asserted, "our country entails about one percent of the world population; this, our share of human efforts should be at least one percent. However, during the final years of the Pahlavi Regime, Iran was producing about 1/10 percent of world science, which shows how backward we used to be!"
A group of academic elites of Iran met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on Wednesday
The Supreme Leader remarked that the establishment must collaborate with the academics and intellectuals to further the development of the nation and said, there should be a mutual exchange between the elites and the management system.
"The enemy seeks scientific exclusion so no other nation can gain power-producing and wealth-producing knowledge; thus, they murder scientists of other countries. This does not only happen to us. During the time the US dominated Iraq, tens of Iraqi scientists were identified and killed, so that Iraq would not progress in the absence of Saddam," Ayatollah Khamenei added.
Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated: “if we advance scientifically, the threats of our enemies will not last forever, and will perish.”Then, he regarded another area of the academic elites’ influence as “playing a role in breaking global borders of science” and went on to say, “in recent centuries, our share of pushing the borders of science away has been very little; we need to extend the borders of global knowledge and discoveries by using the great capacity of Iranian scientific and academic elites.”
A group of academic elites of the country—including CEOs of knowledge-based enterprises; prominent academics who have returned from abroad; top ranking participants of Olympiads, cross-country contests and scientific festivals; outstanding academic researchers from different universities; exceptionally talented students as well as students ranking top in the 2018 cross-country university entrance exam—met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, on Wednesday morning.
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