Ali Norouzi goes live
As long-time online watchers of the shadowy figures involved in Iran’s nuclear and military programmes, we’re always excited when one of them makes a public debut. That doesn’t happen often: for the key scientists and engineers working on the most sensitive aspects of Iran’s various nuclear projects, it’s simply a job requirement to have a non-existent public profile. And that means avoiding interviews on Fars News, shunning holiday Insta snaps, and masking up when the TV cameras visit your nuclear facility. But there comes a certain point in the career of an Iranian exec when one simply has to show one’s face in public. As Mohsen Fakhrizadeh knew well, it’s kind of awkward to continually hide from the cameras when you’re an Internet-famous leader of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme: if you wanna be the boss, you have to pay the cost of a little publicity. The latest Iranian to hit this point in his career is one of our favourites: Dr. Ali Norouzi ( علی نوروزی ). We...