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TEHRAN — Iran’s leader issued a decree Monday paving the way for a state takeover of the country’s largest private university, in a crushing blow to the nation’s moderates.
The Islamic Azad University was a major site for opposition protests against the 2009 disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which opponents say was fraudulent. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decree declared the university’s endowment, which keeps it financially independent, to be religiously illegitimate and therefore null and void.
