I was reading about Ali Larijani’s daughter, Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, a professor at Emory University, who just flew back to Iran from the United States to attend her fathers funeral.
Ali Larijani, according to Wikipedia, was an Iranian military officer and the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. He was also one of the two representatives of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei to the council. He was also described as the country’s de facto leader. Larijani was killed on March 17 by an Israeli airstrike.
In the comments section of the article, I wrote the following:
I was in college during the Iranian hostage situation. I was an engineering major and our classes were filled with Iranian students sent over to learn chemistry, physics and engineering. While our government was denouncing Iran and labeling them as the enemy, our colleges were teaching them the skills they needed to learn to make atomic weapons, bombs and missiles.
I knew it was a bad thing, my fellow students new it was a bad thing, yet our government allowed it to continue. Through most of my adult life, I’ve observed that most of the bad things that have happened to our country have happened because our leadership has abdicated it’s responsibilities and allowed them to happen.
Our politicians don’t serve the people, they serve the highest bidder.
