Mohammadreza Aref, First Vice President, criticizes the bill on “countering the influence of intelligence services and foreign governments or institutions”

Mohammadreza Aref, the First Vice President of the President, on the second of Shahrivar 1405, criticized the bill “to counter the influence of intelligence services and governments or foreign institutions,” and said that Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the Speaker of Parliament, has promised to remove the bill from the parliamentary agenda.

Aref warned that if the bill is approved with its current structure, the harm it could cause to the country’s science and technology sector could be even worse than the law from 1402.