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A ranking in Scimago is useless for our purpose. And don't worry. If David Albright knows them, everybody in Mossad and the CIA already know them too. So, if you have a specific article that you think is relevant to the discussion, do post them.

Yes, the Shah had a very ambitious nuclear program that could've turned Iran into another Israel in the region. I'm not surprised that the Americans eventually stopped supporting him when a revolution was imminent. If you can read articles published in subscription journals, look for the...

Well, yes. But on the other hand, getting loans can help you develop your infrastructure and economy faster. Look at what Turkey has achieved with loans in less than two decades, although I don't believe Turkey's financial decisions and monetary policies to be good and sustainable. Loans are not...

It has nothing to do with the Iranian leadership. Thanks to sanctions, we cannot take loans from the IMF or the World Bank, or other international institutions or countries. It's not like we don't need loans, we just can't get them. Iran asked for a 5 billion dollar loan during the covid-19...

What articles he's referring to? I wonder.

Well, yeah. In fact, as I told you, laser enrichment in Iran dates back to the time of the Shah. It was an American scientist called Jeff Eerkens that transferred the technology to Iran by writing a letter to the Shah, asking for funds, and then getting invited to Iran. But Iran was never...

Yeah, but the IAEA has not reached such a conclusion. Lashkar Abad is a well-known facility that has been known to the IAEA since the PMD case. And David Albright is known for being wrong on the Iranian nuclear program since the time of the Bush administration and he has provided no proof for...

Nobody cares about angering Ukraine or not. Ukraine is a nobody that is getting even weaker as the war continues. Iran does not want to side with Russia directly because Russia is an aggressor and it goes against our principles to directly support them. Iran has to maintain a certain level of...

SC is a Saudi guy? I always thought he was from Egypt.

Sara Zahedi never won the Fields medal. She won the European Mathematical Society prize in 2016 for her works in numerical analysis. Also, the Fields medal is awarded every 4 years. So, there was no Fields medal ceremony in 2016. Caucher Birkar (Fereydoon Derakhshani) has really deep...

To be fair, the majority of science and mathematics in the golden age of Islam came from the Sassanid Persia and Indian mathematicians. India and China are perhaps two of the most ancient civilizations that contributed greatly to mathematics, long before the Greeks. Aryabhata of India alone was...

But you can be in top 10 every year. China, Russia and the US have always been at the top of the table. When your team scores only one point from P2, for a country like Iran, that's a huge problem. Mathematics and engineering are dying in Iran. Best talents of Iran are now going to...

The situation of mathematics in Iran has never been so bad in decades. This year was an exception to a series of poor performances by Iran at the IMO in recent years, but it changes nothing overall. There used to be a time that Iran ranked 1st (1998) and 3rd (1997) without...

I am quite aware of Lashkar Abad, but that facility has not been active in laser enrichment since E3+1 talks in 2004 and the extent of their success in industrial level enrichment has never been publicized or is not publicly or officially known at all. Also, Iran wasn't really self-sufficient...

There are currently no laser enrichment facilities in Iran. I wonder what officially known facility you are referring to. In fact, Iran's experiments with laser enrichment date back to late 1990s, done covertly.

@drmeson Dude, it's a pleasure to read your detailed posts here.

What do you expect from the Saudis? Nobody expects Saudis to know what hot staging is.

I like how everyone is discussing this news as it is verified. It shows you how much American officials have control over the media that most people take what they say for granted immediately.

This is only worth it (assuming that the news is legit and not fake) if there's a technology transfer from Russia to Iran for the things we need. Otherwise, it's very stupid.

If Iran truly goes for 190K SWU UF6/year, as claimed by Kamalvandi today, it'll be game over for the West. This is a game changing development. Perhaps the biggest development in Iran's nuclear program since 2006.