TEHRAN - Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the Expediency Council, said on Monday that the current government has played a “unique” role in boosting the educational system of the country.

“The Government of Prudence and Hope has played a unique role in boosting the country’s educational system using the JCPOA’s achievements at the international arena,” he said during a ceremony in Tehran.

He said that Iran’s relations with other countries is increasingly expanding, leading to the country’s development in various areas especially in science.

He also described knowledge-based development as one of the country’s principlal policies.

Iran has the capacity to earn a global reputation as a country which possesses advanced sciences, Rafsanjani said. 

He said that Iran has achieved a “good status” at the international level in science.

Iran and the 5+1 group (the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany) finalized the text of the JCPOA in Vienna in July 2015. The nuclear agreement went into effect in January 2016.

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