Iran Faces Unprecedented Wave of Student Migration, Experts Warn of “Irretrievable Elite Flight” - Iran News Update

Iran Faces Unprecedented Wave of Student Migration, Experts Warn of “Irretrievable Elite Flight” - Iran News Update

Iran is experiencing an alarming surge in student migration, with experts warning that the country is facing an unprecedented brain drain that threatens its long-term development. According to Bahram Salavati, researcher and former director of the Iranian Migration Observatory, the number of Iranian student migrants has surpassed 100,000 for the first time in the nation’s history—yet only one percent are expected to return. In an interview with …

Iran’s Brain Drain Crisis: How Corruption and Repression Are Driving a Generation Away

Brain drain is a challenge facing Iranian society. Bahram Salavati, researcher and former director of the Iranian Migration Observatory, told the state-run Entekhab news outlet on June 9: “Every 10 years—starting from 2006, the year that administration came in which they called the ‘miracle of the millennium’—we have seen the number of Iranian students abroad double. If we start at 15,000 that year, it reached 30,000 after the first decade. Then…