astronomy

Masoud Soleimani

Masoud Soleimani is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Masoud Soleimani rather than just read about it. In short: Masoud Soleimani (Persian: مسعود سلیمانی; born 31 August 1970) is an Iranian medical professor. Soleimani was invited by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to lead a research program; upon his arrival in the United States, he was arrested and transferred to a prison in Atlanta.

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Reference excerpt

Masoud Soleimani (Persian: مسعود سلیمانی; born 31 August 1970) is an Iranian medical professor. Soleimani was invited by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to lead a research program; upon his arrival in the United States, he was arrested and transferred to a prison in Atlanta. He was imprisoned in the United States on October 25, 2018, pending trial, and was released in December 2019 in a prisoner swap for Xiyue Wang. Following the prisoner swap, charges were then dismissed.

Detention in the United States Soleimani traveled to the US in autumn 2018, where he planned to complete the final stage of his research on treating stroke patients as a visiting scholar at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He was arrested upon landing in Chicago. Prosecutors in Atlanta accused him and two of his former students of conspiring and attempting to export human growth factors from the US to Iran without authorization. According to court documents, Soleimani's former student Mahboobe Ghaedi bought growth factors on his behalf in early 2016. At the time, Ghaedi was a researcher in laboratory medicine at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Now a principal scientist at the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Ghaedi told Nature that she purchased the proteins in part because they are cheaper and more readily available in the United States than in Iran. Ghaedi then sent the vials to another former student of Soleimani's, Maryam Jazayeri, a biochemist in Louisville, Kentucky. Jazayeri had agreed to take the growth factors to Soleimani during her next trip to visit family in Iran. But when she tried to board her plane at the Atlanta airport in September 2016, US border agents searched her luggage and confiscated the growth factors. Jazayeri had no further contact with US law-enforcement officials until February 2018, when she was again stopped by border agents at the Atlanta airport. They asked her about the vials they had confiscated in 2016, and Jazayeri said that she had agreed to transport the growth factors to Soleimani as a favor, without knowing that this was prohibited. According to court documents, she also told the agents that the proteins were to be used for "medical purposes such as stem cell research, cancer research, and transplantation". Eight months later, on 24 October 2018, a federal grand jury indicted all three scientists under seal — or behind closed doors — on two counts of conspiring to export goods to Iran without authorization. At the time, Soleimani was en route to the United States to take up a temporary research position at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Federal agents arrested him when he arrived in the United States on 25 October, and the government also revoked his visa. Ghaedi, a US permanent resident, and Jazayeri, a US citizen who was born in Iran, were arrested soon afterwards. The attorneys for Jazayeri filed a motion to dismiss the charges, arguing that the Iranian sanctions were unconstitutionally vague as applied to the growth factors Jazayeri had in her possession and that, regardless, the growth factors were exempted from the export ban because they had a medicinal purpose. On December 8, 2019, president Donald Trump thanked Tehran for "a very fair negotiation" and said: "See, we can make a deal together!". The charges against Jazayeri and Ghaedi were subsequently dropped.

References

External links Media related to Masoud Soleimani at Wikimedia Commons

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Masoud Soleimani

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Masoud Soleimani claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Masoud Soleimani before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Masoud Soleimani ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Masoud Soleimani

In research: Masoud Soleimani appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Masoud Soleimani in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Masoud Soleimani is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1970 births, 21st-century biologists, Academic staff of Tarbiat Modares University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Masoud Soleimani outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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