Purcell Press

The Islamic Republic hanged Erfan Shakourzadeh the top-ranked aerospace engineering graduate student in Iran. A brilliant mind who could have been a priceless asset to any country was instead led to the gallows. In part of his forced confession before execution, he says that young people in Iran are taught that no matter how hard they study, there is no future for them in their own country. A regime that executes its brightest minds is not merely destroying innocent lives; it is strangling its own future in darkness.