Iranian Disturbed Psyche

This piece is only in Persian. To read it in Persian click here.

Summery in English: The post is about an Iranian student of Physics in Princeton in the 1930s named Mahmoud Hessaby. After graduation from Princeton Mahmood Hessaby went back to Iran and assisted the new pro-Western Iranian government to establish a “School of Sciences” in the brand-new “University of Tehran”. Years later in the 1990s, his son Iraj Hessaby claims that his father was a friend of Albert Einstein, Niles Bohr, Schrodinger, and Dirac; and makes up stories about the incredible adventures of his father in Princeton university. Within a two-year period the book is published thirty times. The post is a commentary on one of the stories from that book. It also brings up the question why such a ridiculous book became so popular in Iran.