ARTICLE: Huge cost of Iranian brain drain, By Frances Harrison, BBC News, January 8, 2007.

Fascinating. According to the IMF, out of 90 countries it recently examined, Iran has the biggest brain drain going on. Informal estimates of students taking exams designed to facillitate their departure suggests a dramtic increase since Ahmadinejad came to power in 05.

Sound like a country on the rise? Or--again--does it remind you of late Brezhnevian USSR?

Thanks to Bryan Wilson for sending this in.