September 06, 2019
Sorena Sattari (photo), the vice president for science, has announced that Iran has managed to reverse the brain drain that has plagued the country for decades. However, his statistics were more than a little bit short of convincing. He said that 130 students who had graduated from top-ranked universities abroad had returned to Iran in the first four months of the current Persian year. That is barely one returnee a day, and doesn’t put a dent in the millions of Iranian living abroad.
