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The University of Tehran is the oldest and most respected school in Iran. Though founded under Iranian and French influence, the University of Tehran has received council from various American universities in the development of many of its departments, including USC and John Hopkins University. UT accepts both male and female applicants, and admits hundreds of foreign students every year, creating an undergraduate class of about 30,000 students. Regardless of the repressiveness of various Iranian regimes, the students here are as politically active as anywhere else; In 1979, the Shah's army fired on protesting students, fueling revolutionary fires. In 1999, students protesting the closing of a reformist newspaper were brutally repressed by militant and police groups, escalating the protest into street riots that lasted nearly a week.