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  2. Academic relations between Iran and the United States

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    "Hakim Eshaq Adams", one of the first Iranian students in the United States. "Yokhanan Sayaad Abaajlou", a graduate of Dr. Joseph Cochran at Urmia University of Medical Sciences, went to New York City in 1887 for postgraduate studies, making him the first Iranian student to go to the United States for higher medical education.

  3. Iranian Persian - Wikipedia

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    Iranian Persian (Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized: Fârsi-ye Irâni), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian (Persian: فارسی, romanized: Fârsi), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.

  4. Higher education in Iran - Wikipedia

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    It was Abbas Mirza who first dispatched Iranian students to Europe for a western education. [5]The history of the establishment of western style academic universities in Iran (Persia) dates back to 1851 with the establishment of Darolfonoon – which was founded as a result of the efforts of the royal vizier Mirza Taghi Khan Amir Kabir, aimed at training and teaching Iranian experts in many ...

  5. List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

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    Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, founding director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland [21] Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, [22] co-founder and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Bionics, [23] inventor of the HULC; Shaygan Kheradpir, chief operating officer, Barclays

  6. Intellectual movements in Iran - Wikipedia

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    Department of philosophy of the University of Tehran traditionally is the top place of the greatest philosophers in secular education system in Iran; among the philosophers of the University of Tehran to be named are Reza Davari, Ebrahimi Dinani, and Mahmoud Khatami whose influences are clear all over students of philosophy. Reza Davari who is ...

  7. Iranian Students' News Agency - Wikipedia

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    Iranian Students' News Agency was established in December 1999 in order to report on news from Iranian universities. [10]During its first five years, the agency (ISNA) performed an influential role in the country socio-political sphere and "embodied the view of a news agency as having a role not only in the coverage of events, but also as an active agent of social change through discursive ...

  8. Western Iranian languages - Wikipedia

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    Kontovas, Nicholas. "Contact and the diversity of noun-noun subordination strategies among Western Iranic languages." Hanaway Jr, William L. "Gernot L. Windfuhr. Persian and West Iranic: History and State of Research: Part One: Persian Grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1979.[Trends in Linguistics: State-of-the-Art Reports, No. 12." Review of Middle ...

  9. Iranian Australians - Wikipedia

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    Iranian-Australian is used interchangeably with Persian-Australian, [3] [4 ... that, in the Western world, Iran was known as ... mostly university students who ...