Norman Podhoretz and Sheldon Adelson may envisage Iran as a land of terrorism and fanatics, and maybe they have convinced Trump and Pompeo of this. It’s no more true than saying that America is peopled with terrorists and fanatics. When I was at the University of Rochester, I lived in university housing for awhile, and they assigned roommates to a double apartment. One of these was an Iranian, Aziz Bekhami, whose bio and photo are here. It mentions his being at Rochester. Aziz was a normal guy and no fanatic. His specialty was nuclear physics. The U.S. government had played … Continue reading A Non-Fanatic Iranian Nuclear Physicist