How US sanctions are targeting Iranian education

How US sanctions are targeting Iranian education Submitted by Maziyar Ghiabi on Tue, 09/15/2026 - 15:41 American and European universities and firms have long enjoyed the benefits of employing brilliant Iranians - but Washington has closed that door Maryam Mirzakhani, who became a full professor at Stanford, won the Fields Medal in 2014, the first Iranian to receive mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel (AFP) Off In the last week of August, I received several messages from Iran, all bewildered, about the English lan