 He was in Britain from 1990 to 1993 working on his doctorate at the University of Strathclyde, where he was a member of the soccer team.Unlike some of the somber clerics or Islamic conservatives, he smiles easily, wears short sleeves and holds a black belt in judo.On a bookshelf at his office at the School of Economics of Tehran University he has dozens of books on economic theories, but also novels, like a Persian-language version of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez.