The Heads of State and Government and High Representatives met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 17-25 September 2015 at the UN General Assembly and decided on 17 new global Sustainable Development Goals.
All member states, including the Iranian regime were required to start implementing the Agenda in 2016.
In the months leading to the Iranian regime’s presidential elections, however, the Agenda 2030 and its Education 2030 document turned into a focal point of controversy and an issue of wrangling among the regime’s internal factions. Tehran officials expressed their opposition to the agenda, one after the other, with the mullahs’ supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, weighing in.
On June 13, 2017, the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution meeting presided by the mullahs’ president Hassan Rouhani decided to stop implementation of the agenda in education and instead consider the Fundamental Reform Document of Education adopted under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in December 2011, as the benchmark for all educational affairs in the country.
This study aims to examine the reasons for the Iranian regime officials’ hysteric reaction to the agenda and its education document.
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