Smart Sanctions
New sanctions have caused ETS, the Educational Testing Service, to block Iranian students from taking standardized tests required for Western educations, such as the TOEFL and the GRE. From ETS’s website: Registration temporarily suspended in Iran The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution affecting banks and financial institutions that conduct business in Iran. As […]
An Unsolved Mystery: Shahram Amiri
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4SzcAeExg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Shahram Amiri, an Iranian physicist who has been missing since June of last year, has uploaded two separate videos online sharing completely contradictory accounts of his situation. Which video is real? Or are both just a fraud? In his first video, Amiri says he is residing in Tuscon, Arizona after having been abducted from […]