The succession of germinal technological advances claimed by the Islamic republic, mostly in the aerospace and its ancillary industries with military application is capturing all the International limelight. At the same time there are less noticed yet fully advanced leaps in other fields that the Islamic Republic should pay if not more at least as much attention to.
According to credible international organizations such as IMF and human rights monitoring organizations, Islamic republic of Iran has the highest rate of brain drain and child execution in the world.
There is also the distinction of being the world leader in grain import in some years and a major oil producer which imports over 42% of its gasoline. There are others such as the alarming drop in the age and fantastic rise in the number of millions of addicts and the ever increasing number of both male and female prostitutes. The road traffic accidents being the second highest cause of mortality in Iran and its world leadership in such category also beckons attention.
Last but not least, the combination of government sanctioned and administered human organ trade and the desperately needy young populace is fast making the Islamic Republic a major destination for moneyed patients in search of transplant.
