Education officials in Iran have decided to put restrictions on twelve social sciences at the university. They will prevent school from forming departments in certain subjects and the government will be reconsidering and altering the content of porgrams currently in place. The say this is because they are based on Western though and are not compatible with Islamic teachings. They will be restricting women's studies, law, political science, management, human rights and philosophy. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme leader had concerns about these teaching because he thought they would lead to religious doubt. The majority of protests involve students. This might be a way the government is trying to reduce dissent from what they think is 'right' or that doesn't appear to doubt religion (and I would assume squash what goes against political, governmental wishes.) I wonder if this censorship of knowledge will only bring about more protest? They already 'sent into retirement' (which is a nice way of saying firing or pushing them out of their jobs because the don't agree with their teachings) of many professors thought to be liberal or secular. This was followed by student protest, which is why I would think the government further limiting the knowledge accessible at universities in Iranians will spur more debate and protest.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2027288,00.html
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