🇺🇸🇮🇷 There are six professors teaching at prominent American universities who are known to be children of Iran's government officials. While the Islamic regime in Iran enforces strict Islamist rule and publicly denounces the U.S. as "Great Satan," its "nobleborn" children, known as aghazadehs, enjoy the very Western freedom denied to ordinary Iranians. They are as follows: - Leila Khatami: A mathematics professor at Union College and daughter of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami. - Zahra Mohaghegh Damad: A faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and daughter of high-ranking cleric Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad. - Zeinab Hajjarian: A professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and daughter of Saeed Hajjarian, a key figure in the IRGC and intelligence apparatus. - Ehsan Nobakht: Son of former deputy health minister Ali Nobakht; associate professor of medicine at George Washington University. - Eissa Hashemi: Son of Masoumeh Ebtekar (a key spokesperson during the 1979 hostage crisis); associate professor at the Chicago School in Los Angeles. - Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani: Formerly a cancer specialist at Emory University; she is the daughter of Ali Larijani, a former speaker of the Iranian parliament.
