Editing University of Tehran (section)

==History==
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[[File:University of Tehran Memorial Plate.jpg|thumb|left|Opening stone of University of Tehran]]
The first official step for the establishment of the present form of University of Tehran in Iran occurred on 31 March 1931 when Minister of Court [[Abdolhossein Teymourtash]] wrote [[Isa Sedigh]] who was completing his doctoral dissertation at [[Columbia University]] in New York to inquire as to requirements for the establishment of a university in Tehran.<ref>David Menashri, Education and the Making of Modern Iran (Cornell University Press, 1992) page 145</ref> Isa Sedigh regarded the letter as an invitation to outline a comprehensive scheme for the establishment of a new university.

In 1933, during the cabinet meeting, the subject was brought up. [[Hekmat E Shirazi|Ali Asghar Hekmat]], the acting minister of the Ministry of Education stated the following words there:
"''Of course, there is no doubt on the thriving state and the glory of the capital, but the only obvious deficiency is that this city has no 'university'. It is a pity that this city lags far behind other great countries of the world.''"
His words had a profound impact on everyone in the meeting, resulting in the acceptance of the proposal. Thus allocating an initial budget of 250,000 Tomans, the Ministry of Education was authorized to find a suitable land for the establishment of the university and take necessary measures to construct the building as soon as possible.
Ali Asghar Hekmat in collaboration and consultation with [[André Godard]], a French architect – who was serving the Ministry of Education as an engineer, began looking for a location for the university grounds. By the orders of [[Rezā Shāh]], the compound of Jalaliyeh garden was selected. Jalaliyeh garden was located in the north of the then Tehran between Amirabad village and the northern trench of Tehran. This garden was founded in the early 1900s during the final years of Nasir ad- Din Shah, by the order of Prince Jalal ad-dawlah.
The master plan of the campus buildings was drawn up by French architects Roland Dubrulle and Maxime Siroux, Swiss architect Alexandre Moser, as well as Andre Godard, Nicolai Markov and Mohsen Foroughi.
The University of Tehran officially inaugurated in 1934. The Amir-abad (North Karegar) campus was added in 1945 after American troops left the property as World War II was coming to an end.
The university admitted women as students for the first time in 1937.<ref>[[History of the University of Tehran#cite note-5]]</ref>

In 1935, the formerly males-only university opened its doors to women as part of the country's sweeping universal education policy.<ref name=sey10>{{cite journal|last=Shojaei|first=Seyedeh Nosrat|author2=Ku Hasnita Ku Samsu|author3=Hossien Asayeseh|title=Women in Politics: A Case Study of Iran|journal=Journal of Politics and Law|date=September 2010|volume=3|issue=2|doi=10.5539/jpl.v3n2p257|url=http://us-iran.org/sites/default/files/webform/userarticle-submissions/women_in_politics-iran.pdf|access-date=12 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327061122/http://us-iran.org/sites/default/files/webform/userarticle-submissions/women_in_politics-iran.pdf|archive-date=27 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Lorentz, J. ''Historical Dictionary of Iran''. 1995. {{ISBN|0-8108-2994-0}}</ref>

UT played a central role in the overthrow of the Pahlavi government in the 1978-9 revolution. University curricula, staff, and student intake were subject to major revisions in the early 1980s, as part of Iran's Cultural Revolution.<ref name=Outline>{{cite journal|title=Neither Dulati nor Khosusi: Islam, Education and Civil Society in Post-1989 Iran|journal=Iranian Studies|volume=50|issue=4|pages=575–600|author=Zep Kalb|year=2017|doi=10.1080/00210862.2017.1295345}}</ref> UT continues to constitute a central part of Iran's student movement.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Revival of the Student Movement in Post-Revolutionary Iran|journal=International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society|volume=15|issue=2|pages=283–313|author=Mehrdad Mashayekhi|year=2001|doi=10.1023/A:1012977219524}}</ref> 

In 1986, the Iranian parliament, known as the Majlis of Iran, stipulated that the university's overcrowded College of Medicine be separated into the independent [[Tehran University of Medical Sciences]] (TUMS), and that TUMS be placed under the leadership of the new ministry of health and Medical Education.