{"id":63957,"date":"2018-09-21T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63957"},"modified":"2018-09-17T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:14:48","slug":"18-05-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63957","title":{"rendered":"German Government-Funded Foundation Remains Committed to Joint Research Projects with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Iranian Regime Minister Says German Government-Funded Foundation Remains Committed to Joint Research Projects<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The image used by Iran\u2019s official news agency to highlight cooperation agreements with German Foundation DFG. Image: IRNA.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s official news agency reported\u00a0on Friday that a cooperation agreement between a group of Iranian universities and a major German research foundation remains in force, as the Tehran regime prepares for the impact of tough new US economic sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interviewed by Iran\u2019s\u00a0IRNA<\/em>\u00a0agency, Deputy Minister for Science Hossein Salar Amoli said that universities in Tehran, Amir Kabir and Isfahan were \u201ccooperating in implementing projects\u201d with higher education institutions from the German cities of Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin, in 24 areas ranging from fossil fuel exploration to the translation of Persian literature.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same report said that the research was being bankrolled by the\u00a0Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG \u2014 German Research Fund), a state-funded body that awarded 3.2 billion euros of grants in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

While there was no independent confirmation from the DFG of Amoli\u2019s claims on Friday, the organization did reach\u00a0a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran\u2019s National Science Foundation on Jan 21, 2016. The\u00a0five-year agreement<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 renewed automatically if neither party objects \u2014 was signed by Prof. Nosratollah Zargham for the Iranian side, with Prof. Frank Allg\u00f6wer, a leading authority in the field of systems biology, signing on behalf of the Germans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor has the German media reported on the agreements with Iran, since the appearance of a\u00a0glowing feature<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0about cooperation in water technology between universities in Dresden and Shiraz\u00a0in the\u00a0S\u00e4chsische Zeitung\u00a0<\/em>news outlet last April. This could indicate that the Iranian regime is recycling old news in a propaganda bid to counter US sanctions \u2014 although Amoli also claimed, without elaborating, that a group of German academics was currently visiting Iran \u201cto review their capacities to take advantage of research and training projects and increasing cooperation in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the four months that have elapsed since US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, the Tehran regime has been anxious to emphasize that renewed sanctions will not impact its \u201cscientific cooperation\u201d with other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Jun. 1 \u2014 three weeks after the US walked away from the nuclear deal \u2014 Iranian official\u00a0Hossein Vatanpour stressed at a press conference that the regime had \u201cscientific exchanges with several countries in the world and sanctions will not affect these relations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That message that has been repeated regularly in the face of the comprehensive sanctions on Iran that the US\u00a0wants locked\u00a0down by Nov. 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iranian Regime Minister Says German Government-Funded Foundation Remains Committed to Joint Research Projects Algemeiner Staff The image used by Iran\u2019s official news agency to highlight cooperation agreements with German Foundation DFG. Image: IRNA. Iran\u2019s official news agency reported\u00a0on Friday that a cooperation agreement between a group of Iranian universities and a major German research foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63969,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957\/revisions\/63969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}