Scientific apartheid stems from power relations in the world system.
Tehran, Irena -. Ali-Akbar Waliati, a senior adviser to the leader of the Islamic Revolution, says that scientific apartheid goes beyond university relations or connections between scientists; It is rooted in the international system, in power relations, and in the way scientific and technological opportunities are distributed today.
In his announcement to the fifth international conference of the World Alliance Against Scientific Apartheid, which was held under the theme for justice in science and technology in the new global order, Veliati said that during the years that the country was under sanctions and war, scientists, researchers and young people vigorously continued their scientific work and did not stop it.
In no other religion has so much emphasis been placed on the acquisition of knowledge, scholarship and deep thinking as in Islam, he added.
Those who see religion and science as contradictory have no choice but to remain silent in the face of this volume of emphasis, since there is no sign of anti-scientific sentiments in the Islamic sources or in the history of the emergence of this religion, he noted.
The scientific heritage of Iran and Islamic civilization serves as the foundation on which today's science rests.
As one of the most significant centers for the development of sciences such as algebra, trigonometry and astronomy, Iran transmitted these sciences to the world, including the West; Science moved from East to West, and today's Western progress is based in the East, including Iran, the message said.