Qajar monarchs emptied the national treasury touring Europe for personal indulgence. Reza Shah reversed this formula: instead of traveling himself, he sent brilliant young Iranians to Europe to master modern science and establish a progressive state bureaucracy. Crucially, those students eagerly returned to build their homeland.
Today, under the Islamic Republic, that historic national vision has deteriorated into catastrophic brain drain—forcing thousands of top medical and academic minds to flee.
True national leadership invests in youth to build institutions; ideological incompetence drives them into exile. Why did that generation return, while today's best minds see no future but leaving? Share your perspective below.
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