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Published online 8 July 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.642
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Iran presidential candidate speaks out, part 2
Former science minister and 2005 presidential contender Mostafa Moin answers additional questions about how the international science community can help Iran.
Biomedical researcher Mostafa Moin was a reformist candidate in Iran's 2005 presidential elections, following which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president. In a 2006 interview with Nature, Moin, a former minister for higher education and for science, argued that building a stronger civil and democratic society in Iran was key to the country's scientific development and it becoming a knowledge-based society.
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