Tehran, YJC. The Iranian science minister has urged expanding collaborations with Iraq in academic fields.
In a Sunday meeting in Tehran with his Iraqi counterpart
Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani, Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and
Technology Mohammad Farhadi said the way should be paved for further academic
and educational cooperation between the two countries.
He noted that Iranian universities are ready to ink
sistership agreements with universities in the neighboring Arab country.
The Iranian science minister also noted that about one
hundred Iranian students are currently studying in Iraq while on the other
side, more than 1200 Iraqi students are busy studying in Iranian academic
centers, adding that the number is likely to grow further.
The Iraqi science minister, for his part, pointed to the
deep historical ties between Iran and his country and said the two ministries
can contribute to the development of economic, scientific, educational and even
political relations between the two countries.
Al-Shahristani, who is in Tehran to attend a ministerial
meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states’ science ministers and academic
centers, also pointed to Iraqi universities’ keenness to sign cooperation
agreements with Iranian universities and other academic centers.