The science publication, Nature has discovered that "a 2009 paper co-authored by Kamran Daneshjou, Iran's science minister, are identical to those of a 2002 paper published by South Korean researchers." The 2009 article published by Kamran Daneshjou and Majid Shahravi in Engineering with Computer magazine is by implication a product of plagiarism.

Declan Butler's report also reveals doubts surrounding the authenticity of the science minister's credentials. Daneshjou's webpage, according to Butler, previously claimed he received his PhD from Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology, but in the past week he has changed the content of the website, claiming he received his degree in 1989 after working at the Imperial College in London and the defense of his thesis actually took place in AmirKabir University in Iran.

بمدارک تحصیلی آقای وزیرعلوم در بلوگ خودشان توجه کنید که دکتری ایشانرا اهدائی دانشگاه سلطنتی منچستر عنوان میکند
و سپس تغییر مدارک را چند ماه بعد در همان وبلاگ ملاحظه نمائید:

Mr. Daneshjou is not the first person in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet to be accused of holding a forged degree. Former interior minister Ali Kardan's degree from Oxford University was proved to be fake, and the authenticity of Ahmadinejad's vice-president Alireza Rahimi's academic documents are also under question by several members of parliament.

Mr. Daneshjou's performance as the head of elections headquarters during the controversial June presidential election is also suspicious. Widespread allegations of fraud have been made concerning the ballot. Opposition and protesters claim Mr. Ahmadinejad's victory is the product of a rigged election.

مقاله زیر در مجله امریکن ساینتیست، مجله طراز اول علمی امریکا، تحت عنوان "دو دانشمند ایرانی در صف تقلب علمی"

یکی از ایشان وزیر علوم آقای کامران دانشجو هستند.

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Iranian Ministers in Plagiarism Row

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Two Iranian government ministers have co-authored peer-reviewed papers that duplicate substantial amounts of text from previously published articles, according to an investigation by Nature.

Three journals have already confirmed that they will retract papers co-authored by Iran's science and education minister Kamran Daneshjou, a professor in the school of mechanical engineering at the Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST) in Tehran. Before being appointed science minister in early September, Daneshjou was also head of the interior ministry office overseeing the disputed presidential elections in June that kept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power. A further publication by Iran's transport minister and his deputy has also been called into question.

In an online story last week, Nature revealed that substantial sections of text in a 2009 paper in the journal Engineering with Computers by Daneshjou and IUST colleague Majid Shahravi were identical to a 2002 paper by South Korean scientists in the Journal of Physics D. New York-based Springer, which publishes Engineering with Computers, has told Nature that it will retract the paper. The work also duplicates smaller amounts of material from papers given by other researchers at conferences as well as a 2006 article in the International Journal of Impact Engineering.