The IUT president announced that this university is the first Iranian university that became a CMS member of the prestigious institute of CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research). Stating that Iran has been only connected to CERN through "the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)", Prof. Dr. Abtahi added that the Faculty of Physics at IUT is the first faculty out of Tehran that sent students to CERN in the field of Fundamental Particle Physics for scientific cooperation.