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Two years after the Cultural Revolution on 20 March 1982, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, while delivering a sermon at Friday Prayer, gave utterance to a project called Islamic Azad University for the first time. It launched its activities on 1 August 1982. IAU is a University system in Iran and overseas as well as one of the largest higher education institutions inside Iran. Azad University is ranked 2nd in Iran and 226th in the world by URAP ranking system. To measure performance, URAP uses the Total Documents indicator whose objective is measuring scientific productivity, and all Azad University units were taken as one unifying unit for this ranking.
