Iran Election Protests: Evaluating the Cost of Slaughter in the Streets

While reading everything I can find on the Internet about the Iran election protesters, I keep noticing many Iranian PhD. students are in their twenties. One of the students killed in the dorm raids at Tehran University was a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. Mousavi's campaign manager is a PhD in his twenties.

I also found several CV's posted online from Iranian PhD students. One was for a PhD student in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. As I kept running across this, I wondered about the higher education system in Iran. I decided to take a look at the future so easily murdered in the streets.

In Tehran alone, there are 8 universities with a total of 4,500 papers published via the Institute for Scientific Information. I found 224 Iran university students enrolled in an International Conference on Combinatronics scheduled May 15-21, 2009. Title of one lecture: Spherical Designs and Association Schemes Versus Euclidean Designs and Coherent Configurations.

At the Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, I found PhD. candidates in Architecture and Urban Planning, Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences , Economic and Political Sciences, Education and Psychology, Economics and Political Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Law, Letters and Human Sciences and on and on.

In the Washington Post, I read an article about Burton Richter, an American Nobel laureate in physics, who visited Tehran's prestigious Sharif University in 2008. Hundreds of students rose to give him a loud ovation. One student told him that they are studying hard so Iran one day will have a Nobel Prize winner in Science.

Need I say more about the waste, besides brutality, of the regime's actions against kids standing on their roof at night shouting, "God is Great!" What medical breakthrough, scientific discovery or Nobel prize winner has the world lost from the slaughter in the streets of Iran? We will never know will we?

Author began reports on Iran Election Protesters 3 days before National Media. Click here for the first of 17 articles.

Sources:
wikipedia.org
http://math.ipm.ac.ir/conferences/2009/combinatorics2009/index.jsp

Iran Election Protests: Evaluating the Cost of Slaughter in the Streets copyright 2009