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Science diplomacy in Iran

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Iranian scientists are growing increasingly isolated because of political tensions between Iran and the West. We attempt to alleviate this problem through science diplomacy.

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Figure 1: Visitors and hosts on historic palace grounds in Tehran.

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Figure 2: Mohammad Akhavan's Magnet Research Laboratory at Sharif University of Technology.

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  1. Warren E. Pickett is in the Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA,

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  2. Anthony J. Leggett is in the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801–3080, USA,

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  3. Paul C. W. Chu is at the Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, 3201 Cullen Suite 202, Houston, Texas 77004, USA,

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Pickett, W., Leggett, A. & Chu, P. Science diplomacy in Iran. Nature Phys 10, 465–467 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3014

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