Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz in case Iranian oil faces sanctions..

nikhil25 · December 29, 2011, 5:22pm

Re: Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz in case Iranian oil faces sanctions..

Well its obvious you have an ignorant attitude towards Iranians and Arabs in general. Your lack of knowledge in the scientific status in Iran is appalling.

Iran was the first in the World to outdo the Americans in Neuroscience. The US Army surgeon Dr Ralph Munslow admitted that Iranian surgeons had come up with a better way to treat patients who suffered from brain injuries as a result of the Iran and Iraq war. Its not that well known but Iranian medical procedures were so excellent that they helped increase peoples chances of surviving appalling head injuries from times when the average injury killed 55% of people those injureis can now be effectively treated. In fact US congresswoman Gabriel Gliffords owes her life to the Iranian surgical methods which saved her from dying when she was shot in the head. Good to know that if you are unfortunate enough to be a victim of a severe head injury your life can be saved thanks to this surgical method bought to us by Iranian scientists and researchers.

In terms of Biotechnology Iran is one of the most advanced in the world not only mass producing successfully GM crops like rice but also succeding in fields such as cloning and its stem cell research program is among the top 10 in the World.

You might be surprised to know that Iran is far ahead of India and Pakistan in terms of bio-implants. Iranians have succesfully come up with “life-patch” programs where they can successfully create bio-mass implants of Bone, Heart valves and tendons. Currently thier research into occular implants is one of the leading in the World I believe Taiwan and Singapore as well as Iran rank far higher than many European countries and light years ahead of India and Pakistan.

If your still in doubt about Iranian scientific achievments let me remind you of an Arab program called SESAME, in which Iranian scientists along with jordanian counterparts created the first LINAC (Linear particle accelerator) in the Middle east. At the time it was no less an acheivement than the Hadron Collider which was far more publicized but nowhere near as successfull.

Iran is officially ranked among the highest in nano-technology in the World and holds a standing higher than any other Muslim country with only S. Korea being more advanced in Asia and the rest of the world leaders being European.

Iran is 9th in the World since the Soviet union in space technology having sucessfully launched sattellites into orbit.

Irans most recent success was the production of the worlds smallest microphone… so small it cannot be seen by the naked eye.

Anyone still in doubt please refer to the following sources.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/iranian-makes-worlds-tiniest-microphone/215770-11.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/11/bolton-iranian-jamming-technology-could-be-worse-news-than-downed-drone/
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2006/issue3/jv10no3a2.html

Science and technology in Iran - Wikipedia

Read "Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies: International Workshop Proceedings" at NAP.edu

Now just becuase your ignorant of something does not change the fact that it exists. I assume your Indian, look up the rankings of sceintific achievements and you will see India is ranked well behind Iran both on paper and in reality becuase India gets a lot of outside help as does Pakistan. Iran on the other hand has worked mostly on its own so Kudos to them for thier excellent progress.

i generally find you to be a fairly decent/rational poster but this is really a surprise. i don’t mean to be rude but the above post is an embarrassingly weak and flawed defense of iranian scientific achievement. you have clearly just copy/pasted every one of your comments from an extremely bizarre wikipedia page filled with random, out-of-context, cherry-picked, and poorly-sourced “achievements” put together sloppily by some iranian fanboys.

i guess you are generally unfamiliar with the fields of science and technology, which must be why you are making such silly comments (including the references to india). anybody with basic familiarity will tell you that there are a few standard metrics used to judge a nation’s scientific/technological strength. the most important of these metrics are:

scientific research output
patent volume
R&D spending

each of the above metrics has an authoritative source for data and rankings (see below links). please take a look at them. not surprisingly, iran is a nobody in all categories. since you wanted to bring india into the discussion, you will find that india has a respectable position in each category. lastly, i don’t know why you further felt the need to bracket india and pakistan together when india is a sizeable science/technology producer and pakistan is not on the scientific map at all.

http://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php
http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/wipi/figures.html