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Last week, the University of Tehran hosted a conference in which a panel of prominent professors and former officials expressed unprecedented public criticism of Iran’s nuclear program. The panelists drew parallels between the devastating costs of the Iran-Iraq war and those of Iran’s nuclear program and questioned its usefulness and achievements. The meeting made headlines even in the Western media for the panelists' audacity in questioning what the top leadership of the Islamic Republic considers a national security issue.
As expected, criticism of the panelists — Sadeg Zibakalam, Ahmad Shirzad and Davoud Hermidas-Bavand — was swift and harsh.
