Mohammad Baset Dorrazehi

Mohammad Baset Dorrazehi
محمد باسط دُرازهی
member of Islamic Consultative Assembly
In office 28 May 2016 – 26 May 2020
Personal details
Born	1981 Iran
Political party	Reformist (Hope List)
Profession	Politician

Mohammad Baset Dorrazehi (Persian: محمد باسط دُرازهی), born in 1981, is an Iranian politician who was representative of Saravaan, Sib, Soraan and Mehrestan (electoral district) in the Parliament of Iran. He was a member of Education and Research Commission.[1]

He has been a member of the Pervasive Coalition of Reformists also known as The List of Hope for the parliamentary election campaign in 2016 Iranian legislative election.[2]

Public insulting to customs officer

In December 2018 a video of Dorrazehi was posted online where he was arguing on a matter with a customs officer with a crude language. The customs officer in the video is addressing the public there saying 'look, this man with such language is a parliament member, don't know who voted for him'. The video went viral in Iran and triggered comprehensive reactions from the public. Dorrazehi himself claims that the video, has been doctored to make him look bad.[3]

Plagiarism case

Dorrazehi was a co-author of a paper [4] that turned out [5] to be a verbatim copy of two articles [6][7] by Wolfram Burgard a professor at University of Freiburg and his colleagues. The German professor reacted to the plagiarism, adding that 'we seem to be lacking proper mechanisms for detecting and following up with ethical misconduct'.[8] The plagiarized article by Dorrazehi and his colleagues was presented in a Chinese conference.

Dorrazehi in defense stated [9] that:

• He was not involved in writing the paper
• The field for the paper was different from his field and he contributed only in translating
• If there is a mistake (plagiarism) made in the article, the Chinese conference would have to detect it
• The student committed this (act of plagiarism) and not me
• The student did this unintentionally and the student worked in an unprivileged area and he was inexperienced
• I did not allow the paper to be republished in any other places

References

1. "مرکز پژوهشها - کمیسیون قضایی و حقوقی". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
2. "سایت جماران - سهم اصلاح طلبان و اصولگرایان از مجلس دهم". www.jamaran.ir. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
3. "Iran's Economy Minister Denies Apologizing To Lawmaker". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
4. . 19 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181219121448/http://www.aerialroboticscompetition.org/assets/downloads/2014SymposiumPapers/IslamicAzadUniversitySaravanBranch.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. "افشای سرقت علمی در مقاله باسط درازهی! +سند". www.tabnak.ir. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
6. ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de http://ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/publications/papers/grzonka12tro_quad.pdf. Retrieved 30 December 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de http://ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/publications/papers/grzonka09icra.pdf. Retrieved 30 December 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. "Wolfram Burgard". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
9. "خبرگزاری فارس - نقشي در تنظیم مقاله علمی نداشتم/از این خطای غیرعمد بهره‌برداری سیاسی شده". خبرگزاری فارس. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.