Mitra Jashni

Mitra Jashni, Dr. Daniel Jafari A motorcycle of Iranian paramilitary militia is set on fire during a protest in Tehran, Iran. Every serious option for dealing with Iran seems to create a worse problem than the one it solves. Sanctions have enriched the Revolutionary Guards. Diplomacy has bought time for centrifuges. Air strikes, however devastating, produce ninety million powerless, hungry people, and a regime that calls the resulting chaos a victory. The question isn’t whether to act.

On November 30 of last year, the first report of suspected poisonings of students in a girls' high school in Qom was published, coinciding with the start of opposition actions in Iran during the summer and fall of last year. As of March 6, according to Mohammad Hassan Asfari, a member of the Truth-finding Committee of the Islamic Republic Parliament, 5,000 male and female students in 25 provinces of Iran have been affected by suspected poisoning since.