Iran claims development of AIDS drug

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: piasabird
What does a totalitarian Muslim country need an Aids Vaccination for?

License it worldwide and make billions, propel your national scientific community to world recognition, increase your political status and currency internationally?

You think they invented Viagra because ED was the most pressing health crisis worldwide, or to make billions off it?

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: M00T
You mean "ever since Khomeni's revolution"...

True, but things seemd to be getting slowly better until Ahmadinejad.

Slowly better for whom?

Great news for the Iranian scientific community if its true.

The point is that Iran?s president is curbing what little political and social freedom existed before him.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: piasabird
What does a totalitarian Muslim country need an Aids Vaccination for?

Blackmail

 

[JEDIYoda]

Iran Iraq.......see what happens when you interchage the last letter....
Iraq Iran.....go figure

 

[Aimster]

Iran's President is turning Iran back into what it was in the early 1980s.
A country run on fanatical Islamic ideology.

In the 90s Iran's youth went to the streets and the hardliners had to curve back some of that fanatical Islamic ideology otherwise they would have risked another revolution.

Newspapers in Iran are not "free" to publish what they want. They have to be careful not to speak out against the regime. If they do the newspaper will be shutdown and more than likely the individual(s) will be under house arrest or fined.

& to the topic.
Iran might have developed whatever it is they are claiming. Many Iranians are educated outside Iran. Usually at the best universities in the U.S and Europe.

every day there is a drug that shows promise, but for some reason we never hear about that drug again.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Science and technology in Iran, like the country itself, has a long history. Persia was a Cradle of Science in earlier times. Iranians contributed significantly to the current understanding of nature, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy. To name a few, persians founded algebra, invented wind-power machine and discovered alcohol.

Iranian scientists are a significant portion of international scientific community. In 1960, Ali Javan invented first gas laser. In 1973 fuzzy set theory has been developed by Lotfi Zadeh. Artificial heart was invented by Iranian cardiologist, Tofy Mussivand. HbA1c was discovered by Samuel Rahbar and introduced to medical community. Vafa-Witten theorem was proposed by Cumrun Vafa, Iranian string theorist and his co-worker Edward Witten. KPZ equation has been named after Mehran Kardar, notable Iranian physicist. Here are some representative discoveries and innovations by Iranian scientists throughout the world:

* Karim Nayernia: discovery of spermatagonial stem cells.
* Reza Ghadiri: 1998 Feynman prize for invention of a self-organized replicating molecular system.
* Mehdi Vaez-Iravani: invention of Shear force microscopy.

According to a study carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Iranian scientists and engineers in US own or control around 880 billion dollars.

Science and technology in Iran

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: jrenz
They can't even develop a nuclear bomb...why would they be able to develop an AIDS drug?

lol what do nuclear bombs have to do with drugs! :laugh:

Exactly, why develop aids drugs when you can use the money to build nukes!

 

[Cattlegod]

This means nothing.

The USA has been "developing" AIDS drugs for decades. Until they have something that works, it means nothing.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: M00T

Originally posted by: TravisT
yeah, if we can steal it from them. Who wants to do business with that shady country?

What information do you know about Iran other than the things you've heard on Fox news?

Well, their president is a member of the terrorist group Hezbolla, for starters, and has called for the complete destruction of Israel and all Jewish people.

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: M00T

Originally posted by: TravisT
yeah, if we can steal it from them. Who wants to do business with that shady country?

What information do you know about Iran other than the things you've heard on Fox news?

Well, their president is a member of the terrorist group Hezbolla, for starters, and has called for the complete destruction of Israel and all Jewish people.

He didnt call for the complete destruction of the Jewish people ...

 

[ThePresence]

Iran is doing this to save the Muslim people from the evil Zionists.
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Paris - France's broadcasting authority called for a ban on television broadcasts to Europe by Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group on Tuesday, after the satellite station claimed Zionists were trying to export Aids to Arab countries.

Reacting only a week after it approved the station despite charges it was violently anti-Semitic, the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA) said it would ask a court to ban al-Manar TV for breaking its pledge not to incite hatred among religions.

The CSA cited as evidence an al-Manar broadcast last week that spoke of "Zionist attempts to transmit dangerous diseases like Aids through exports to Arab countries". The broadcast said Israel had "no scruples" about infecting Arabs and Muslims.

Iran = Hezbollah
Al-Manar = Hezbollah

But wait! They're not alone in this claim.
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All hail the great Islamic heros saving the world from the Zionists!

 

[azazyel]

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: M00T
You mean "ever since Khomeni's revolution"...

True, but things seemd to be getting slowly better until Ahmadinejad.

Actually the Mullahs were loosing quite a bit of power until Ahmadinejad was elected. Many in the country actually liked us, too bad we just threw them in the "Axis of Evil."

A New Day in Iran?

The regime may inflame Washington, but young Iranians say they admire, of all places, America


The police officer stepped into the traffic, blocking our car. Tapping the hood twice, he waved us to the side of the road. My driver, Amir, who had been grinning broadly to the Persian pop his new speaker system thumped out, turned grim. ?I don?t have a downtown permit,? he said, referring to the official sticker allowing cars in central Tehran at rush hour. ?It could be a heavy fine.?

We stepped out of the car and approached the officer. He was young, not more than 25, with a peach fuzz mustache. ?I?m a journalist from America,? I said in Persian. ?Please write the ticket in my name. It?s my fault.?

?You have come from America?? the officer asked. ?Do you know Car . . . uh . . . Carson City??

Carson City? In Nevada?

He crinkled his eyebrows. The word ?Nevada? seemed unfamiliar to him. ?Near Los Angeles,? he said.

It?s a common reference point. The city hosts the largest Iranian diaspora in the world, and homes across Iran tune in to Persian-language broadcasts from ?Tehrangeles? despite regular government efforts to jam the satellite signals. The policeman said his cousin lives in Carson City. Then, after inspecting my press pass, he handed it back to me and ripped up the traffic ticket. ?Welcome to Iran,? he beamed. ?We love America.?

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2005/march/iran.php

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: M00T

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
Why do I supect that their AIDS remedy somehow constitutes beheading people.

are you confusing Iraq for Iran ?

Please.

Ever since Ahmadinejad was "elected", Iran has begun to crackdown on social and political freedoms while spewing anti-Semitic propaganda. You do the citizens of Iran a disservice by pretending that Iran?s problems are only a result of Fox news.

You mean "ever since Khomeni's revolution"...

iirc, the shah was doing the same.