Re: Poor "Jim Pennino" :-)

Pezeshkiyan's first deputy (Aref) had a live session with a group of Iranian newly graduated PhDs of Stanford. Aref is himself a Stanford graduate. He kind of went over how he made the decision to leave USA and go to Iran to serve, and how he thinks he made the right decision.
The Iranian graduates were mostly interested to ask him if time could go back and Aref would be in that day that he hadn't decided yet, what would be his decision now that he has seen the consequences.. :-)
Aref said he was absolutely sure that if he was taken back to that day, he would choose to go to Iran and serve.
Then the rest of the online meeting continued with Aref's long description of why this was so, and how in the beginning there were resistance against educated people in Iran and how the educated and young dealt with it.
Especially he pointed out, in a very rare description of realities in Iran, how Iran has changed and is a different entity now; how the old thinking has given way to new fast progress forward, and how experts are in these days and times welcomed by Iran and above all, how successful such experts are proving to become in Iran of today.
His long explanation was from the heart, and his own experience of what Iran went through to get here, and was very unique and telling. I'm sure he impressed a lot of the new young graduates. What a man.
Let me translate his last sentence in that long talk:
   "For the young experts, American and European paths to civilization can't and aren't anymore be the preferred one. A civilization whose pinnable is the Ghazan tragedy, is the exact state of the primitive and the uncivilized."
So Aref is saying what I've been saying for 30 years. Americans and Europeans are earlier humans. They're not Modern Humans. And they'll never do better than "Ghaza tragedy."
It's what they are.