Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sohrabpour ( born in 1943 in Tehran) is an Iranian academic and the current chancellor of Sharif University of Technology. He graduated from Alborz High School and received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Sohrabpour is the only leader of a top university still in place since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office. The Iranian peoples are an ethnic and linguistic branch of the Indo-Iranians, in turn a branch of the Indo-European peoples, living mainly on the Iranian plateau and beyond in central, southern and southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe. As a group of people, they are predominantly defined along linguistic lines as speaking the Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, in turn a major branch of the Indo-European language family.