The aim, here, is exclusion rather than qualifications.
One fake university with an address in the island of Saba, in the Caribbean, has sold over 500 doctorates to Iranian officials for $25,000 apiece.
To complicate matters further, the conditions demand other qualifications that are hard if not impossible to measure.. For example, how do you prove heartfelt belief in the necessity of religion or transparent hostility to the West or opposition to all seditions that have taken place against the Islamic Revolution ?
Things become more complicated when would-be candidates are asked to prove loyalty not only to the regime and all its policies but also to be committed to preserving all the existing institutions of the Islamic Republic. This means that those who dream of reforming let alone disbanding the High Council of Guardians of the Constitution or merging the Revolutionary Guard with the national army need not apply.