The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) is the government ministry of science, research and technology in Iran. State-run (non-medical) universities of Iran are under the direct supervision of Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The ministry was established in 2000 when the ministry of culture and higher education was renamed as the ministry of science, research and technology.

In 2000 the ministry set up the Aerospace Research Institute.

The supervision of higher education institutions and the approval of the study programmes, as well as the accreditation of universities and other higher education institutions are conducted by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Medical education falls within the remit of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education. A list of recognised universities and institutes of higher education and private institutions is available on the .

Ministers since 1979 until 2024

No.PortraitNameTook officeLeft officePartyHead of government
1Ali Shariatmadari5 February 19791 October 1979JAMA (political party)Mehdi Bazargan
2Hassan Habibi1 October 197928 May 1980Islamic Republican PartyMehdi Bazargan Council of the Islamic Revolution
3Hassan Arefi10 September 198017 August 1981Islamic Republican PartyMohammad-Ali Rajai
4Mohammad-Ali Najafi17 August 198114 August 1984Islamic Republican PartyMohammad-Javad Bahonar Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (acting)Mir-Hossein Mousavi
5Iradj Fazel20 August 198428 October 1985IndependentMir-Hossein Mousavi
6Mohammad Farhadi28 October 198529 August 1989Islamic Republican Party
7Mostafa Moeen29 August 198916 August 1993Islamic Association of Iranian Medical SocietyAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
8Mohammad Reza Hashemi Golpayegani16 August 199320 August 1997Independent
(7)Mostafa Moeen20 August 199723 August 2003Islamic Iran Participation FrontMohammad Khatami
9Jafar Towfighi8 October 200324 August 2005Independent
10Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi24 August 20053 September 2009IndependentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
11Kamran Daneshjoo3 September 200917 August 2013Independent
12Reza Farajidana27 October 201320 August 2014IndependentHassan Rouhani
(6)Mohammad Farhadi26 November 201420 August 2017Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society
13Mansour Gholami29 October 201725 August 2021Islamic Association of University Instructors
14Mohammad Ali Zolfigol25 August 202121 August 2024IndependentEbrahim Raisi
15Hossein Simaei Sarraf21 August 2024NowIndependentMasoud Pezeshkian

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