It seems that, from times immemorial, technology has always been dual, for the best and the worst. Today, design flaws and mismanagement of critical technological facilities, built hastily out of fear, hollow pride, and unanticipated necessities, could disseminate death across continents. In 1986, the explosion of the Russian built nuclear reactor in Chernobyl released 140 million curies of radioactive material. Since then, in the former Soviet Union at least 9 million people have been affected by the accident; 2.5 million in Belarus; 3.5 million in Ukraine; and 3 million in Russia. It has been estimated that the total bill for those countries most affected will exceed $300 billion by 2015. In total over 160000 Km2 are contaminated in the three republics[1]…One tenth Iran’s area, forbidden to life for centuries to come. The 21^st century, the age of all opportunities…and all fears…

Hope is a basic Human Right…

The Islamic Republic is a pseudo-system whose abysmal dysfunctionality has put a millennia old country, nearly 70 million strong and 1.648 million km2 wide, on the verge of collapse.

Constitutionally, 59 of the fundamental law’s 177 articles directly refer to religion. In the absence of the 12^th Imam, according to articles 5 and 57, all powers are in the hands of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution. The Leader is nominated by the Council of Experts. The latter is appointed by the Guardian Council, itself an emanation of the will of the Leader and the Head of the Judiciary. This, in turn, is nominated by the Leader. The circle is closed[2].

Politically, the country is the region’s biggest prison for journalists[3] while a foreign reporter is being killed, in detention, in the hands of the judiciary’s own prosecutor.