Academic relations between Iran and the United States

Higher education in Iran during the modern era generally begins with the establishment of the academy of Dar ul-Funun.

However, there have already been a number of activities to establish higher education institutions in Iran, in which the Americans have played a major role.

[1] Other Iranians who went to the United States for the first time to study include the following: The Memorial School was founded in 1881 and was run by religious missionaries of the American Presbyterian sect.

[7] This school was one of the institutions founded by American expeditions that had served in the city of Tabriz since the mid-nineteenth century.

The university was then designated by the World Health Organization as the library and information center of the vast Eastern Mediterranean region.

[32] In 1950, the United States in line with Harry S. Truman's policy and Point Four Program, established a plan called "USAID".

It was from here that Utah State University undertook to cheapen its agricultural technology to developing countries such as Iran between 1951 and 1954, which continued into the 1960s.

[35] And in 1939, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked the United States to send agricultural specialists to Iran.

Franklin S. Harris, a professor and president of Brigham Young University, came to Iran in response to Reza Shah's request.

[36] In addition to The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago's relationship with Iran during World War I, a committee called the "American Persian Relief Commission" was formed in New York City to finance and support those who worked for the Persian Relief Committee.

According to a report, amount of $2,271,570, as well as some grain for planting and trucks to transport food from India to Iran, has been donated by the "Persian Relief Committee".

[42] Despite the desire of both sides to improve and develop scientific and cultural relations, obstacles (such as sanctions against Iran) remain in the way of these goals.

For example, in December 2008, "Glenn Schweitzer", director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Europe and Asia (who has worked hard to exchange professors between Iran and the United States), twice in Tehran for nine hours in his hotel room, he was arrested and interrogated by plainclothes security agents, which was strongly protested by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.