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seven Swedes, and three Britons. Where were they going? Flight PS752 was a connecting flight for most passengers, returning to their residence from the new year’s holidays. More than 80 percent of the passengers (138 people) were en route to Canada. The rest were headed to other European destination, including Sweden (at least 17) and the UK (at least 4). How much do we know about the Iranians on board? Finding out what caused the crash definitely matters. But What’s striking to me and deserves extra attention is the number of educated Iranians on this plane, including: Three university professors and instructors: Mojgan Daneshmand (43), Pedram Mousavi (47), and Razgar Rahimi (38); Six medical doctors and students: Mohammad Asadi Lari (23), Shekoufeh Choupannejad (56), Mohammad Amin Jebelli (29), Firouzeh Madani (54), Naser Pourshaban Oshibi (53), and Neda Sadighi (50); Three dentists: Parisa Eghbalian (42), Sharieh Faghihi (58), and Farhad Niknam (44); Twenty-eight PhD students and graduates: Mojtaba Abbasnezhad (26), Mehran Abtahi (37), Iman Aghabali (28), Fareed Arasteh (32), Amir Ashrafi Habibabadi (28), Ghanimat Azdahri (36), Mohammad Amin Beiruti (29), Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani (29), Mehdi Eshaghian (24), Aida Farzaneh (38), Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan (37), Milad Ghasemi Ariani (32), Hadis Hayatdavoudi (37), Pedram Jadidi (28), Saeed Kadkhodazadeh Kashani (29), Forough Khadem (38), Siavash Maghsoudlou Estarabad (43), Arvin Morattab (35), Elnaz Nabiyi (30), Zahra Naghibi (32), Milad Nahavandi (24), Ghazal Nourian (26), Alma Oladi (27), Sara Saadat (23), Amir Hossein Saeedinia (25), Hamidreza Setareh Kokab (31), Mohammad Salehe (32), and Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi (35); One doctor of veterinary medicine (Samira Bashiri (29); and Twenty-five master’s students and graduates: Negar Borghei (30), Niloofar Ebrahim (34), Mohammad Mahdi Elyasi (28), Faraz Falsafi (31), Parinaz Ghaderpanah (33), Siavash Ghafouri-Azar (35), Amirhossein Ghassemi (32), Masoumeh (Masi) Ghavi (30), Pouneh Gorji (25), Shadi Jamshidi (31), Bahareh Karami Moghadam (33), Fatemeh Mahmoodi (30), Maryam Malek (40), Sara Mamani (36), Amir Hossein Ovaysi (41), Arash Pourzarabi (26), Shahab Raana (36), Nasim Rahmanifar (25), Kasra Saati (47), Alvand Sadeghi (29), Mahdi Sadeghi (43), Sahand Sadeghi (39), Mohsen Salahi (31), Sajedeh Saraeian (26), and Sam Zokaei (42). Only a few of these young, talented Iranians had done their K-12 and undergraduate education out of Iran. Among them were two science olympiad medalists and 16 graduates of Sharif University of Technology — Iran’s best engineering school. Out of the 66 victims mentioned here, one PhD student was headed to Switzerland, one PhD student was headed to the U.S., and one PhD student and two master’s degree holders were going to the U.K.. The rest had all chosen Canada as their home, many of them non-dual citizens, living in Canada on student visas. Iran’s brain drain and Canada’s human capital gain The brain drain problem of Iran is no secret. The country continues to lose its talents to Europe and North America. Most of the people who leave Iran for work or graduate studies never return. Even the Donald Trump’s visa ban has not stopped the flow of Iranian graduate students to the United States. Yet, migrating to the U.S. is not as easy as the days of Barack Obama, when U.S. was believed to be the number one destination of top Iranian students. The 66 victims named above are only the people who had pursued studies beyond the bachelor’s level and their education background was available online. The crashed plane also included Iranian undergraduate and high school students as well as successful professionals, entrepreneurs, and teachers making valuable contributions to their new land. These people were only the passengers of one international flight out of Iran we got to know about after they were killed. What worries me is what we don’t know about Iran’s lost human resources through other international flights that don’t crash! If the passengers of PS752 are a representative sample of the people I

Ukrainian plane, Iranian Brain and Canadian Pain 🇮🇷 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇮🇷 We must worry about the future of Iran if the Flight PS752 passengers constitute a representative sample of the brains Iran is losing. Hearing sad stories about home is nothing unusual for Iranian immigrants. We grow up with fear, tension, uncertainty, and conspiracy theories. Many of us migrate for peace, but no matter how far we get, how long we have been away, and how many passports we carry, we still care about the country we call home, even if we are not welcomed there. In the Middle East, every day can involve surprises and may be the start of a new chapter of our lives. We have seen wars, lies, corruption, inflation, currency crashes, chaos, controversial elections, assassinations, terrorist attacks, and innocent civilians getting shot or dying in demonstrations, earthquakes, floods, fires and stampedes. We have had classmates getting beaten for their political views and friends imprisoned for mysterious reasons. And we have lost many friends and family members in tragic road accidents. Plane crashes are not new in Iran either. In the U.S., “97 percent of aviation fatalities occur in general aviation (not commercial flights)”, killing the rich and famous. But in the country under U.S. sanctions, flight accidents take the lives of ordinary Iranians flying commercial planes in an aviation industry that for decades has struggled purchasing new aircrafts and spare parts for its old fleet. So, the news of a plane crash right after the death of 78 people in a funeral stampede and an earthquake near the Iranian nuclear plants in Bushehr when our country is at the edge of a war with the U.S. under Donald Trump should not technically bother us much. Yet, this story of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crash is different for me. Unlike other plane crashes in Iran, the aircraft in this incident was neither old, nor owned by Iran. The operating company was not under American sanctions and the plane was not shot down by the Americans as the Iran Air Flight 655. The crashed jet was not the fatal Boeing 737–MAX either. So, one cannot immediately blame the U.S. for intentional and direct involvement in this fatal accident. The Flight PS752 had 176 people on board, including its 9 Ukrainian crew members. The lives of all these innocent people must matter to the world and the cause of their death must be determined immediately through a fair, apolitical, and thorough investigation. As everyone else, I want justice for them but have no power to reverse the loss of their families. So, as the politicians and media are playing their typical post-crisis games of accusations, I have been trying to investigate about the Flight PS752 passengers. Who were they and why were they on board? Where were the passengers from? The Flight PS752 passengers were from five countries. The passengers’ nationalities were not as diverse as most international flights around the world. The information released by the Iranians on the nationalities of the passengers must have been based on the passports they used for entering and leaving Iran, reflecting the original nationality of the passengers. Iranian dual citizens must use their Iranian passports to enter and exit Iran. So, they are registered as Iranians at check in. Based on the Iranian media, the flight had 150 (90%) Iranian passengers. The flight had also had 10 Afghan passenger and majority of them dual nationals. The remaining passengers included: two Ukrainians; three Swedes (the husband and two children of one Iranian-Swedish passenger, Raheleh Lindberg (37)); and two Canadians accompanying their Iranian-Canadian religious pilgrimage tour leader, Asghar Dhirani (74) — the oldest passenger of the flight. The statistics reported by the international media are different and must be based on the passports the dual-citizens on this flight were planning to use at their final destination. Based on the available information, at least 71 passengers of this flight were dual nationals, among them at least 61 Canadians,

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)Iran may well have calculated that it's better off with a Democrat in the White House and not a Republican like President Donald Trump. Logically -- and Iran's leaders are intensely pragmatic in that far-sighted way -- Tehran will likely calibrate its vowed "harsh revenge" response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a bid to cost Trump re-election. Part of that calculation is likely to have Iran focus on targets inside the United States as well as in the Middle East, not just to embarrass Trump but to limit regional escalation. Hours after the strike Trump said his intention was "to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war." But the President's actions may soon catch up with his words at home -- especially when fighting an election campaign. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/middleeast/trump-iran-revenge-analysis-intl/index.html

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https://t.me/MkNotes/577 همیشه حرف های مفت فراوانی در اطراف ما وجود داشته است و هم اکنون نیز وجود دارد بیست(سی) سال پیش یک فیلسوف دانشگاه ییل سخنانی ایراد کرد که علیرغم عنوان غیرمعمولش چندان مورد توجه قرار نگرفت، سخنرانی ای با عنوان «درباره حرف مفت» . سال گذشته این سخنرانی در قالب کتابی ۶۷ صفحه ای با همین نام انتشار یافت و اما این بار اقبال فراوانی به آن شد در رده یکی از پرفروش کتاب های فلسفی در دنیای انگلیسی زبان قرار گرفت و همچنان نیز پرفروش باقی مانده است و نویسنده ۷۵ ساله آن «هری فرانکفورت» - استاد فلسفه دانشگاه- در حد یک مرشد معنوی مورد استقبال قرار گرفته است. اما چرا چنین شد؟ تصاویر ناسازگاری وجود دارند که بعضی از مردم نمی توانند در برابر گیرایی آن مقاومت کنند. مثلاً دیدن راهبه ای که در جامه رسمی اش دارد می رقصد آنچنان که در فیلم «خواهر اکت» با نقش آفرینی ووپی گلدبرگ می بینیم. ما به خاطر آن که چنین رخدادهایی به طور معمول رخ نمی دهند به سوی آنها جذب نمی شویم، بلکه آنها به این خاطر توجه ما را جلب می کنند، که «نباید رخ بدهند». بنابر این هنگامی که یک استاد هفتاد و هشت ساله فلسفه کتابی منتشر کند با نام «درباره حرف مفت» و کتاب در عرض تنها چند ماه به چاپ دهم برسد، شاید نباید خیلی هم تعجب کنیم. هری فرانکفورت استاد ممتاز بازنشسته دانشگاه پرینستون نویسنده کتاب می گوید: «مردم از تصور این که یک استاد دانشگاه های نخبه آمریکا از چنین زبانی استفاده کند کیف می کنند... نمی توانم بگویم که استقبال شدید از کتاب غافلگیرم نکرد... واقعاً شگفت زده شدم.» فرانکفورت ۷۵ ساله حق دارد که شگفت زده باشد. هر چقدر هم که اکنون رفتارهای ما بچگانه و بی معنی باشد، خیلی بی معنی تر از بیست (سی) سال پیش نیست که این متن برای اولین بار برای ایراد به عنوان سخنرانی نوشته شد. http://www.bashgah.net/fa/content/show/20469

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Are You a Narcissist? Identifying and Understanding Narcissism Narcissism should not be confused with high self-esteem. Narcissists may have an inflated sense of self-importance or a heightened desire for attention, but that doesn’t mean they really feel good about themselves deep down. Do they have an exaggerated sense of self-importance? Do they expect recognition or praise even when they haven’t earned it? Do they exaggerate their accomplishments? Do they have a sense of entitlement? Expect special favors? Feel envious of others? Act arrogant? All of these traits are listed among the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder as it’s defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/compassion-matters/201411/are-you-narcissist-infographic