The best and brightest of Iran's students are leaving and not coming back. This has a great deal to do with the current state of the economy. Only 2.5 percent of the GDP was set aside for science and technology research and less than that is actually being allotted to this. There is no industry for this in Iran, and if they want to keep up with the West when it comes to technology this needs to change. 89% of Medical Students in the US from Iran don't go back. The salaries don't compare whatsoever in Iran compared to Canada, where many of the Iranian scientists are flocking to. People see leaving as their only option to find success in this industry and with the way things are, that is understandable. There is going to need to be significant change, funding wise and the in the minds of the people for this to change and this doesn't seem to be part of the agenda in the near future. In a class of 50 physics students 2 stayed in the country. It's situations like this that show that Iran needs to change to even think of competing internationally to keep up, but their focuses tend to be elsewhere, so this change could be a long way up the road.
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