Brain-Drain in Iran (Highest in the world)

Mideast Youth ^ | 8/25/07 | Mideast Youth

[freedom44]

Changing blog language to something except your mother tongue, reminds me the Iranian Brain-Drain, as its about two months that I’ve changed my blog language from Persian to English! The Brain-Drain is not always physically by going abroad, sometimes can occur by changing your writing language.

If you suffer from internet censorship and want to have freedom of speech, there’s no obligation to write in your language and better to escape as fast as you can from this sad situation. No one should feel regret or put himself in difficulty when you understand what did Ayatollah Khomeini the leader of Islumic Republic revolution On Oct 13 of 1979 said:

“They say there is a brain drain. Let these decayed brains flee. Do not mourn them, let them pursue their own definitions of being. Is every brain with - what you call - science in it honorable? Shall we sit and mourn the brains that escaped? Shall we worry about these brains fleeing to the US and the UK? Let these brains flee and be replaced by more appropriate brains. Now that they (the Islamic Republic) are filtering, you are sitting worried why they are executing [people]? Why are you discussing these rotten brains of [these] lost people? Why are you questioning Islam? Are they fleeing? To hell with them. Let them flee. They were not scientific brains. All the better. Don’t be concerned. They should escape. [Iran] is not a place for them to live any more. These fleeing brains are of no use to us. Let them flee. If you know that this is no place for you, you should flee too.” 1

What else should say? The words are so clear. Don’t regret and set yourself free. One may say it seems that I am inviting everyone to Brain-Drain. And I say, YES! The Bloging situation really suffered me, eveyday living without freedom of speech makes me upset, and there is no hopeful situation. Everyday it becomes worse. Who could have imagined Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad as the upcoming president?

It makes the estimate 150,000 yearly Brain-Drain in Iran and makes Iran the highest in Brain-Drain in 90 measured countries as International Monetary Fund ranked in 2006. 2 Brain-Drain costs $50 billion or more yearly for Iran. 3 Just look at Modern Iranian Scientist, Scholars and Engineers list who are now in abroad to understand its importance.

[Rudder]

Well, if I were living in Iran, I’d leave.

[Drammach]

Anyone with a brain should know enough to leave.
Unless, possibly, they are in positions of power..

But, even then, common sense would dictate.