VP: Iran is Ready to Create World Network of Muslim Scientists

Tehran (ANTARA/IRNA-0ANA) - Vice-President in Science and Technology Affairs said Iran is ready to create world network of Muslim scientists in collaboration with other Islamic countries. Speaking in the closing ceremony of the international meeting of 'University Professors and Islamic Awakening' in Tehran on Tuesday evening, Nasrin Sultankhah said Iran can create world network of scientists of Muslim and developing countries to organize Muslim countries scientific efforts. She continued that the network, like 'doctors without border', can work without any ethnic or national dependence or financial expectations to share knowledge with deprived societies. The VP also said there is a plan to award international prize of 'Great Prophet' to the best scientists of Islamic world in the future, adding that the president has approved the plan. She said that the biennial prize will be awarded to the best scientists of Islamic world and developing countries in the field of technology. The VP said that promotion of Muslim states need formation of strong scientific movements and in this way scientists and elites should move first.(*)