Iran Will Contribute to the International Thermonuclear Fusion Experiment by Marsha Freeman
INTERVIEW Iran Will Contribute to the International Thermonuclear Fusion Experiment by Marsha Freeman Editorial Note: The following interview with Dr. Mah- Interview with Dr. Mahmood mood Ghoranneviss is printed here, not only due to the importance of what Dr. Ghoranneviss reports, as preg- Ghoranneviss nant with potential as that report is, but also for the reader to perceive the significance of Iran’s entry into a “Politicians have programs just for less than leading role for fusion energy research, within the four years, but great people have programs for greater context of the history-changing developments their grandchildren.” which are now taking hold within the entirety of South- —Dr. Mahmood Ghoranneviss west Asia and the extended region of the “Middle East” in general. Last year’s nuclear agree- Beginning with the Aug. 8 summit meeting of Rus- ment between Iran and the sian President Vladimir Putin, the President of Iran, P5+1 nations of China, Hassan Rouhani, and the President of Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Russia, Ilham Aliyev, and continuing with the meeting between the United Kingdom, and Russian President Putin and Turkish President Recep the United States, created Tayyip Erdogan on Aug. 9 in St. Petersburg, a change in the possibility for Iran to the entire course of human history and a pathway out of participate in the world’s the current global crisis has now been opened up. An leading fusion experiment, effective strategy against terrorism, an attainable per- the International Thermo- spective for peace, and rapidly expanding potentials nuclear Experimental Re- for economic development are now all achievable actor, (ITER), which is Dr.
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