Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi who was addressing the ceremony of welcoming new students to University of Tehran on Sunday, said that the university had had specific planning in production of knowledge to promote the international status in global competition for excellence in science; “currently, the international status of the university falls short of the prestige lavished upon the university as country’s first ever university, and we have waged unremitting efforts to promote the position,” he told the ceremony.