U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2000-2009) Opportunities, Constraints, and Impacts (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Of course, the political turmoil within Iran and uncertainties as to the direction of U.S.-Iran government-to-government relations will undoubtedly complicate initiation and implementation of new science engagement activities in the near term. The Statement of Task for this report is as follows: The report will document the history of the National Academies' coopera tion with Iran oer the past 0 years.
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Seventeen jointly organized workshops, usually involving about 25 participants, have been the primary mechanisms for carrying out this engagement effort. An important criterion in selecting topics for workshops has been ensuring a symmetry of interests and capabilities.
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In 2000, the leaderships of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine met with counterparts from the Iranian Academy of Sciences and Academy of Medical Sciences to begin to chart the initial engagement course. Leaders of these institutions met several additional times during the early 2000s to help ensure that the engagement effort was responsive to scientific interests of the two countries, was flexible to accommodate unanticipated administrative problems, and was appropriate in a volatile political environment.
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Joint efforts of an American and Iranian participant in the program led to the recognition by ISI of an additional Iranian journal, entitled Scientia Iranica, which covers a wide spectrum of science and technology findings by Iranian and other researchers. In short, the engagement effort has increased the awareness of Iranian participants of the importance of internationally acceptable scientific publications as one measure of the progress of Iranian science.
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About 340,000 inhabitants live in the area that was covered by the pilot project northeast of Tehran. The project involved establishment of a reference laboratory, training of dozens of health-care workers, and development and implementation of upgraded protocols for collecting and analyzing stool samples while following up to identify the sources of the outbreaks.
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IRANIAN ADMIRATION OF u.S. SCIENTIFIC ACHIEvEMENTS From the outset of the engagement effort, Iranian participants usually entered into the program with positive images of U.S.
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In a highly publicized action in 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice successfully sought a special Congressional appropriation of $75 million to finance expanded radio and television broadcasts into Iran and to initiate new types of democracy-support and public diplomacy activities. These funds were promptly tagged as "regime-change" funds by the media in both countries and then by the Iranian Government.
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However, both of these incidents underscore the importance of the governments of the two countries formally endorsing scientific exchanges as an important activity that will benefit both countries. In the absence of such public endorsement, the likelihood that engagement efforts of the National Academies, and probably other U.S.
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Also, other ambitious pilot projects in the environmental field are being considered. Iran's size, its geostrategic location, and its abundant energy resources ensure that the country will continue to be a very important political player in the region.
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Indeed, science cooperation is one of the few options for bridging diverse interests of Iran and the United States and in establishing gateways to mutual understanding and to international security of global importance.
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