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Iranian students top the world at IBO 2022

mahla — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:12:12 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian students grabbed four gold medals at the 33rd International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2022), ranking first in the world.

IBO 2022 was held from July 10 to 18 in Yerevan, Armenia; which was attended by 65 countries, where Iran and Russia jointly ranked first.

The four-member team, who made an honorable effort winning four gold medals, include, Mehdi Afshari, Amir Reza Zeinali, Mohammad Amin Kyani, and Mohammad Mehdi Rahimpour.

The IBO is an annual competition for secondary school students. Their skills in tackling biological problems, and dealing with biological experiments are tested. Interest in biology, inventiveness, creativity, and perseverance are necessary.

In bringing together gifted students, the IBO competition tries to challenge and stimulate these students to expand their talents and promote their careers as scientists.

According to the IBO official website, the first edition of the competition was held in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, in July 1990. Iran joined the competition in 1999, and so far, the country had 8 gold medalists and an annual 32 silver and bronze medalists.

Iranian students shine at IPhO, IMO

The national physics Olympiad team also won 2 silver and 3 bronze medals in the International Physics Olympiad 2022, held online from July 11 to 14 and hosted by Switzerland.

Daniyal Hossein Tabar and Mohammad Sadra Hosseini have claimed silver medals and Taha Alimohammadi, Radmehr Fat’hi, and Behrad Jahani have been the bronze medal winners.

Iranian students have won 192 gold medals, 371 silver medals, and 204 bronze medals since 2005.IPhO is an annual competition in physics for secondary school students, aiming at promoting physics and the development of international contacts in physics education. It involves individual theoretical and experimental competitions in physics.

Moreover, the Iranian Mathematical Olympiad team won three gold medals and three silver medals, ranking 8th in the 2022 edition of the competition.

The 63rd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) was held in Oslo, Norway. Teams of the best young mathematicians were present from more than 104 countries of the world.

Mehran Talaei Khajehroshanaei, Pouria Mahmoudkhanshirazi, and Sina Azizeddin won gold medals, while Seyed Mobin Razavi, Daniyal Parnian, and Amir Mohammad Bandari Masooleh won silver medals.

Over the past Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, Iranian students won seven gold medals, 11 silver medals, and nine bronze medals at different international Olympiads.

According to the Ministry of Education, Iranian students have won 192 gold medals, 371 silver medals, and 204 bronze medals since 2005, IRNA reported.

In the field of mathematics, they have grabbed 46 gold medals, 99 silver medals, and 45 bronze medals. In the field of physics, they have grabbed 36 gold medals, 57 silver medals, and 35 bronze medals, and in the field of computers, they have won 27 gold medals, 58 silver medals, and 23 bronze medals.

Moreover, they have gained 37 gold medals, 50 silver medals, and 24 bronze medals in the field of chemistry; 10 gold medals, 47 silver medals, and 27 bronze medals in the field of biology; 30 gold medals, 49 silver medals, and 40 bronze medals in the field of astronomy; and 6 gold medals, 11 silver medals, and 10 bronze medals in the field of astronomy.

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Iran Summons Hungary Ambassador over Deporting Students

reporter 1222 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:32:44 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Hungary ambassador in protest at the improper treatment of Iranian students infected with the coronavirus in Budapest.

The Foreign Ministry of Iran called in Hungary ambassador to Tehran, Zoltan Varga-Haszonits, on Tuesday to address students deportation.

Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi notified the envoy of the Iranian government’s protest against the unconventional behavior by police and the medical staff of Szent Laszlo Hospital in the city of Budapest towards the Iranian university students who have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Araqchi also slammed as unacceptable the Hungarian government’s decision to expel 15 Iranian university students that were suspected cases of coronavirus and asked the ambassador to inform the Hungarian authorities about the Islamic Republic of Iran’s call for reconsidering the decision.

It was also emphasized that the government of Hungary is responsible for providing the Iranian students in the European country with appropriate accommodation and health and medical services, according to the Foreign Ministry’s website.

For his part, the Hungarian ambassador gave a report of the latest status of the spread of coronavirus in Hungary and the government’s measures to handle the crisis and promised to convey the Iranian government’s request to his country as soon as possible.

The Hungarian ambassador to Tehran has been invited by the Director-General of Europe at the Iranian Foreign Ministry twice over the past two weeks in connection with the recent incidents.

Currently, around 2,500 Iranian students are studying in the universities of Hungary.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in Budapest is in close contact with the Iranian students and also with the Hungarian officials to make sure that the university students are in good health and the situation of their living accommodations and education is all right.

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Iranian Students of Wuhan Returned

reporter 1222 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:53:48 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Dozens of Iranian students are back to the country by a Mahan Airlines plane from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak.

The plane left Tehran with a team of infectious disease doctors and special emergency response medics early Tuesday, according to an adviser to the Iranian health minister Alireza Vahabzadeh.

There were 70 Iranian students studying in Wuhan. They were flown home on Wednesday and will be kept for 14 days in quarantine in a special hospital in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Seyed Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet that all Iranian students residing in China’s Wuhan have flown home.

“We are thankful to God that with the constant efforts of our colleagues in Beijing and Tehran, our dear students and compatriots residing in Wuhan, China, have flown home safely (and arrived) a few minutes ago. We appreciate the close cooperation and coordination among all organizations and institutions, especially the Ministry of Health and the Mahan Airways as well as the Chinese Government,” Mousavi wrote in the twitter post on Tuesday night.

On Monday, head of the Affiliation Center for Disease Control of Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education Mohammad Mehdi Gouya said no Iranian student in Wuhan has been infected with the coronavirus.

Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has made several flights during past weeks to transport Iranians residing in China and Chinese residing in Iran.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that Iran was willing to work together with China to combat the epidemic caused by the coronavirus.

Zarif also lauded the Chinese government for taking “timely and resolute measures in a responsible and transparent manner” to fight the epidemic, saying they have prevented not only a deterioration of the outbreak within China but also across the world.

The minister said Iran has provided China with some urgently needed medical supplies and stands ready to offer more assistance.

Wang thanked Iran for providing China with medical supplies at the critical moment of epidemic prevention and control. He also praised Zarif as the first foreign minister publicly voicing support for China, saying it showed the friendship of the two nations, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Chinese foreign minister said his country has established a nationwide system to fight the epidemic, stressing that Beijing has full confidence and ability to win the fight against the virus.

Zarif said Iran also believes China will overcome the epidemic. He said the Islamic Republic firmly opposes some Western countries’ attempts to exploit the situation.

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US revokes Iranian students’ visa grants

reporter 1222 — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:04:57 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Some 20 Iranian students were barred from boarding flights to the United States in September, despite having the required travel documents.

Mehran founded a software development company at the age of 22 and, within two years, had 20 employees. It was a success, but one day he realized he wanted more: he wanted a graduate degree in software engineering. Iran News covers the story of Iranian students’ visa grants that is revoked by USA.

With diligence and perseverance, he won a scholarship on a PhD program at an American university. He transferred his stocks to family members, put in place a substitute chief executive, sold his apartment, and began the process of getting a visa.

Finally, two months later, he was granted permission to study in the United States and on Sept. 6, he headed to the airport. But Mehran, now 24, never made it onto the flight – his visa had been revoked and he was turned away at check-in.

Now in limbo, Mehran does not know whether to apply for another visa or try and go back to his old life.

“The problem is, I don’t know what to do these months,” he said from Tehran via the messaging app, Telegram. “Every single day, I lose lots of opportunities. With the uncertainty, I can’t even apply for other countries.”

Mehran is one of 20 Iranian students NBC News has identified who were barred from boarding flights to the US during September, despite having the necessary paperwork.

The students who spoke to NBC News requested that only their first names be used, fearing that speaking out would affect their reapplication process. They all attended the prestigious Sharif and Tehran universities and were headed to Stanford University, Northwestern University and the University of California, among other institutions.

This small handful of Iranians, who represent a huge jump in the number of students whose visas have been revoked, are casualties of President Donald Trump’s hardening stance on Tehran.

Since Trump imposed a travel ban and pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, student applications have also taken a hit.

Officially, students are exempt from the ban. However, the tighter policies have led to a decline of issuing Iranian students’ visa grants. There are about 12,000 Iranian students in the US based on data from the Institute of International Education. But the number of Iranian student visas halved from 3,139 visas in 2016 to 1,643 in 2018, according to the US State Department.

A spokesperson for the State Department denied there had been a policy change when it came to issuing visas to Iranian students.

“International students are a priority for the Department of State, and we continue to welcome legitimate student visa applicants,” a State Department official said. Customs and Border Protection also denied there had been “changes to their policy on Iranian travelers with valid visas.”

Pargar Holding, a company that helps Iranian students through the admissions and visa process, said that in the five years it has been operating, it has not seen anywhere close to that number affected.

“Visa revocations are rare cases, impacting maybe one or two students a year,” Morteza Alizadeh, a director at the firm, says.

Iranian students’ visa grants was approved for one entry, by US embassies in Turkey and Armenia. (Iran and the US do not have diplomatic relations, so consular affairs have to be dealt with via third-party countries.)

When they checked at the end of August, they saw that their Consular Electronic Application Center accounts were updated and their visas were still marked as issued.

The single entry visa meant they would be gone for five years – a big but worthwhile sacrifice for Sepideh, 26, a computer scientist who planned to go to the US for her doctorate. Once at the airport, however, airline personnel turned her away and told her to contact the US Embassy.

“As I write this, I still don’t know what I have done, what the issue is,” Sina, 26, said. He was headed to the University of California, Irvine, for a doctorate in engineering. “I ranked first in my masters in the whole department. I had offers which I rejected, so I could come to the US. I believed it would be better for my career. I never dreamed that this would happen.”

Saaqi, 25, an engineering doctoral candidate also accepted to UC Irvine, had already signed up for classes. “My life is a complete blank. I don’t have a plan B,” she said.

Mohammad-Ali, 27, says he is depressed and is rethinking his goals.

“I came back to the dilemma of abandoning my family, aiming high, versus having a more emotionally rich life,” he wrote.

All the students got the same emails from their respective embassies: “Unfortunately, we do not have any information to share about your visa status.”

The American Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia, emailed this message to Mohammad-Ali, who shared it with NBC News.

Those who could afford to, like Sepideh, went back to the embassies only to be told the process would have to restart. Mohammad-Ali says the concern is that the “CANCELLED” stamp in their passports is a black mark, possibly affecting future visa applications. Mehran was refused within two weeks of his reapplication Sept. 27. The visa process is a financial strain that can cost up to $5,000.

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