Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, appointed Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati as the head of the Islamic Azad University’s Board of Founders and Trustees. The following is the full text of this edict issued on January 19, 2017.
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Honorable members of the Islamic Azad University’s Board of Founders
Considering the painful loss of the honorable head of the Islamic Azad University’s Board of Founders and Trustees [Ayatollah Rafsanjani] and the silence of the charter passed by the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution regarding the appointment of the board of founders’ president and due to the necessity to accelerate the appointment of the person holding that position, I appoint Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati- a previous member of the board- as the head of the board of founders so that from a legal point of view there will not be any hiatus in attending to the affairs of that university which plays a significant role in the higher education of the country.
Cooperation between the honorable members of the Board of Founders and Trustees and the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution for the purpose of completing the members of the board, is what I seriously expect.
Sayyid Ali Khamenei
January 19, 2017