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Imam Hossein University
Imam Hossein University
Iran
Iran
Iran
The Imam Hossein University (IHU) (Persian: دانشگاه امام حسین, Dāneshgāh-e Emām Hosein) is a public university located in Tehran, Iran. It was established by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Seyed Mehdi Mousavi Zare.
The university was opened in 1986, and is located in Babayi Expressway near Tehranpars and Hakimiyeh in northeastern Tehran. The university is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics. Its official title is Imam Hossein Comprehensive University. It is named after Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala in 680.
IHU provides undergraduate and postgraduate programs in 15 departments. The student body consists of 6,000 students and cadets.
The procedure for accepting and processing requests at IHU is different from other universities. Regular students can get admission by passing Iranian University Entrance Exam which is done yearly by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Those students are without scholarship and will not be employed by the IRGC. They should also pay tuition fees.
However, students with scholarship are accepted by the IRGC after passing ideological interviews and medical tests, and being a member of the Basij will be an advantage for getting a scholarship. Those students are not permitted to go abroad or to work for private companies. For many years, IRGC Cadet College and IHU academic division were in the same place. But Imam Hossein Cadet College was separated from the academic division in 2005. Then, the academic division was relocated to another recently built infrastructure, and was renamed as the "Imam Hossein Comprehensive University".
The university was established in 1986 by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Seyed Mehdi Mousavi Zare, named Imam Hossein Higher Education and approved as a university by Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. It included faculty of engineering science, faculty of natural science, faculty of social science, and faculty of medicine in 1987. Later, it also included faculty of military science.
In 1994, the faculty of medicine seceded to become the Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, which is the primary medical institution, and currently trains students up to PhD levels in three faculties, namely: Nursing, Allied Health, and Medicine, as well as the Institute of Research for Military Medicine.
In 1963, Iran placed all military factories under the Military Industries Organization (MIO) of the Ministry of War. Over the next fifteen years, they produced small arms ammunition, explosives, and mortar rounds and fuses. They furthermore produced rifles and machine guns under West German license. Additionally, they assembled helicopters, jeeps, trucks, and trailers from imported kits. However, the Iran Revolution stopped all activities. The MIO was unable to operate without foreign experts, so it lost much of its management ability and control over its industrial facilities by 1981.
In late 1981, the revolutionary government brought together all military industrial units and placed them under the Defense Industries Organization (DIO). By 1986, a large number of infantry rifles, machine guns, and mortars and some small-arms ammunition were being manufactured locally. However, they required some specialists and technicians. For this purpose, they opened several universities and colleges, e.g. Imam Hossein University, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, and Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, directly or indirectly linked to DIO by mid-1980s.
Prior to 1989, they began working on the ballistic missiles program was responsibility of the missile unit in IRGC. In 1989, the Ministry of Defense and the Guards merged to form the Ministry of the Armed Forces Logistics, and the IRGC's facilities were merged into the Defense Industry Organization. By the mid-1990s, they were reportedly responsible for Iran's missile programs, headed by the Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO).
On 18 June 2025, during the Twelve-Day War, Israeli airstrikes targeted Imam Hussein University. The strike reportedly resulted in at least 15 fatalities, including IRGC personnel, and caused significant structural damage to parts of the campus. The university was among several high-profile Iranian sites hit during a wave of Israeli attacks on military and strategic installations.
It has a scientific group and a nuclear physics department. Imam Hossein University, which is particularly run on military lines by IRGC, is the center for experiments on nuclear research. Iranian scientists are conducting nuclear research and development using university laboratories.
However, it is not only a main center for nuclear research. It also has a place for biological research. Imam Hossein University has a biological section that conducts microbial research. Nonetheless, nuclear enrichment at Imam Hossein University is the mother of all research at what called a nuclear weapons university. Prof. Raymond Tanter, of Georgetown University, an expert on Iran, claimed that this university has become the center for all of Iran's secret nuclear programs. In February 1998, Imam Hossein University was identified by the British government as having procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programs, in addition to doing non-proliferation related business.
It was named by the German government as an Iranian military procurement organization working toward acquiring weapons of mass destruction; reportedly conducts nuclear development activities separate from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, according to US officials produces anthrax and aflatoxin. It was added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 8 November 2012, freezing its assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with U.S. parties, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, and also listed by the Government of Japan in 2012 as an entity of concern for proliferation relating to missiles and biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.
During the 1990s, the Iran centralized several centers for nuclear research programme under a single unit. They transferred all of their nuclear facilities around the country to the Defense Ministry and also to Imam Hossein University. The announcement on the university's now defunct website shed light on one of Iran's developing nuclear programme and the laser enrichment technique. Prof. Raymond Tanter said that it particularly is importance to mention laser enrichment as a mean to create nuclear fuel. One of the most critical projects is conducted at Imam Hossein University on use of lasers for enrichment. In addition to laser enrichment, the university carried out a test on neutron generator that can also trigger the fission chain reaction.
Undergraduate admission to Imam Hossein University is limited to those students who pass the Iranian University Entrance Exam, known as Konkour (from the French Concours) administered annually by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. First priorities are given to those top students who had grade point averages (GPA) of at least 17 from 20 (equivalent to 85%) in high school, those top 100 of the 500,000 students who pass the national entrance examination, and those who select Imam Hossein University among their leading five choices.
According to the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) partnered with Scopus and maintained by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Imam Hossein University was ranked in Iran as 30th for research, 9th for education, 3rd for international reputation, 1st for facilities, and 2nd for economic activities in 2018. According to the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), Imam Hossein University has 38th percentile in Overall, 18th percentile in Research, and 61st percentile in Innovation, and has an international rank of 663, and a national rank of 11 among 157 ranked Iranian institutions in 2020. In 2020, the SCImago Institutions Rankings also gives an international rank of 339 and a national rank of 5 in Research, an international rank of 493 and a national rank of 28 in Innovation, an international rank of 238 and a national rank of 25 in Societal. CIVILICA, Publisher of Iran conferences and scientific journal papers, also gave a total university rank of 64th and a state rank of 39th based on published papers in Iran conferences and scientific journals.
Imam Hossein University has 33 Master's programs and 9 PhD programs approved by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran).
A number of journals and books are published by Imam Hossein University. Among those:
Initially Imam Hossein University included four faculties:
Later another faculty was founded:
Faculty of Military Science (1990)
In 1994, faculty of Medicine seceded to become the Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University.
The main buildings are located in Tehran, Shahid Babaei Highway near Tehran Pars Fourth Square, Hakimiyeh and Mini-city, include:
The university cooperates with several institutes related to IRGC and Defense Industries Organization. Among those:
Originally Lavizan was a heavily fortified Army Garrison housing Shah's Imperial Guards. During the Iranian Revolution, the garrison fell to Revolutionaries after a fight in which several officers of the guard were killed. The site was later on converted to a research facility. The Lavizan Technical Site includes faculties of installations industries and metallurgy. According to a document, the alleged Iranian nuclear warheads were being stored in the Lavizan military camp in the Teheran area in 1992. Another document discusses the production of a solid fuel missile prototype completed in Lavizan.
A satellite image of 10 May 2004 showed that Iran had almost totally razed part of the Lavizan Technical Research Center. It showed Iran had been demolishing buildings at Lavizan. The Lavizan Center had imported a whole-body counter (WBC), a device used to identify and measure the radioactive material in the body of human beings and animals. On 29 June 2004, El Baradei said that Iran had accepted that the alleged concealed nuclear site in Tehran was a military-research complex before it was razed. The Iranian authorities stated that this was a physics institute later on turned to be a biotechnology research and development center.
Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) is a leading industrial subsidiary of the Ministry of Defense. More than 13 large factories with over 10,000 expert personnel are occupied in manufacturing a vast variety of military and non-military purposes. Products include different types of weapons such as guns, rockets, missiles, mortars, bombs, rocket launchers, field kitchens, gyroscopes, transportation means, police equipment, and helmets. Engineering services include precision machining, metal forming, software services, quality control test, dimensional measurement, CNC machine, and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM).
The Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO), also known as the Sanam Industrial Group, is the Defense Industries Organization (DIO) Missile Industries Group. Sanam Industries Group is said to be the lead organization for the development of the Shahab-3 missile. In 1998, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation had reportedly negotiated an agreement with Sanam Industries Group to provide telemetry infrastructure for Iran's Shahab-3 and Shahab-4 ballistic missile.
Baltic State Technical University in Saint Petersburg has allegedly contracted with the Sanam Industrial group to train Iranian students in order to design long-range solid fuel rocket boosters. They together created a center known as Persepolis as part of a contract concluded in 1996. On 22 June 1998, Iranian students were expelled from Baltic State Technical University as part of Russia's international obligations to control the spread of missile technology.
Fereydoon Abbasi, a nuclear physics professor at Shahid Beheshti University, the head of the physics department at Imam Hossein University, and the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a professor of nuclear physics at the Imam Hussein University, a senior nuclear physicist at Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and former head of the Physics Research Center (PHRC) at the Imam Hussein University.
Masoud Alimohammadi, a particle physics professor at the University of Tehran and Imam Hossein University.
Majid Shahriari, a nuclear engineer at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a professor at Shahid Beheshti University and Imam Hossein University.
Ardeshir Hosseinpour, an assistant professor at Malek Ashtar University of Technology, also taught at Shiraz University and Imam Hossein University.
Mohsen Rezaee, one of co-founders of the university and a lecturer at Imam Hossein University.
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, graduated from Sharif University, an Iranian nuclear physicist and a professor at Imam Hossein University, and a deputy secretary of commerce at Natanz uranium enrichment facility
Parviz Fattah, an Iranian politician, former member of Revolutionary Guard and former minister of energy in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, got a master's degree in systems engineering from the Imam Hussein University
Masoud Mir Kazemi, an Iranian politician, former minister of Petroleum of Iran, former minister of commerce of Iran, a member of Parliament of Iran, and a lecturer at Imam Hossein University.
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