Head of Tehran Medical School: No Quota for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Children in Tehran University of Medical Sciences This Year

During the funeral ceremony held at Tehran's Prayer Ground, medical universities across the country played a supporting role in medical and emergency services; the medical universities of Qom and Mashhad announced their full readiness for the ceremony, and Dezful University of Medical Sciences dispatched a special operational team to the site for emergency coverage. During this period, Alireza Esteghamati, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, addressed the issue of student admission quotas at the university in statements picked up by several media outlets. The president of Tehran University of Medical Sciences also released information about the health conditions of the ceremony, and ISNA reported the launch of calls for recruiting faculty members at medical universities in the near future.

• Alireza Esteghamati, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, stated that no quota designated as "martyr's child" existed at the university in the current year.
• Based on Esteghamati's remarks, student admissions at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in the current year were primarily conducted based on regional quotas.
• These statements were simultaneously covered by three media outlets—Tejarat News, Shargh newspaper, and Etemad newspaper—indicating significant media attention to the matter.
• The president of Tehran University of Medical Sciences announced that no deaths were reported during the ceremony held at Tehran's Prayer Ground; the Mizan news agency reported this news.
• Qom and Mashhad medical universities announced their full readiness to provide medical services at the funeral ceremony.
• Dezful University of Medical Sciences dispatched an operational team for emergency coverage of the funeral rites, which IRNA reported.
• ISNA reported that calls for recruiting faculty members at medical universities will be announced soon, but further details are unavailable.
• The full text of Esteghamati's remarks regarding quota distribution details—including precise admission capacity figures or comparisons with previous years—was not provided in any of the existing coverage.. Coverage difference: Three reformist or independent media outlets (Shargh, Etemad, Tejarat News) focused their attention on Esteghamati's statements about the elimination of the "martyr's child" quota and its replacement with regional quotas—a matter with potential political and social implications—while state media and official news agencies (IRNA, ISNA, Mizan) concentrated on the operational and medical support aspects of the ceremony, including the dispatch of emergency teams, university preparedness, and the absence of fatalities. None of the media outlets explained the background or reason for the elimination of the "martyr's child" quota, and this information gap is common across all coverage.