Press TV - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran must maintain and increase the pace of its scientific progress.

In a Wednesday meeting with officials and personnel from the Iranian Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (ICSS) in the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei described Iran�s scientific progress over the past 20 years as good but stressed that that progress should gain more momentum.

�The pace of this scientific movement [forward] must not slacken; rather, it must be maintained and augmented for the 20 to 30 years to come so that we reach the pinnacle [of scientific growth],� the Leader said.