Retirements at Tehran U. Raise Purge Fears.

The article reports that the decision of the University of Tehran to retire several of its faculty members has raised political concerns. Academics critical of the government claim the dismissals appear to be part of creeping efforts by the authorities to assert their control over the officially autonomous universities. June 2006 marked the one-year anniversary of the surprise election of a hard-liner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as Iran's president.