Muhammad Sahimi
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Muhammad Sahimi(Persian:محمد سهیمی;born 22 January 1954) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and holds the NIOC (National Iranian Oil Company) Chair inpetroleum engineeringat theUniversity of Southern California(USC) in Los Angeles.[1]He is also active in journalism, frequently writing onIranian politics.
Career
[edit]Sahimi received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from theUniversity of Tehranin 1977. After briefly working for theNational Iranian Oil Company(NIOC), he received a scholarship from theAtomic Energy Organization of Iran.He traveled to the US in 1978[2](where he has since remained), completing his Ph.D. at theUniversity of Minnesotain 1984. He then moved to theUniversity of Southern California,becoming Chairman of his department from 1999 to 2005. Since then, he has held theNIOCChair. He has also been a visiting professor in Australia and a consultant to many industrial corporations.[3]
He was named aFellow of the American Physical Societyin 2023, "for fundamental contributions to the development of percolation theory and statistical physics, specifically in the characterization of heterogeneous porous materials and media, as well as the study of flow and transport processes occurring therein".[4]
Political views
[edit]Sahimi writes in broad support ofIranian reformists,one of the two main political camps inside the Islamic Republic regime; the other one isIranian Conservatives.[5] Since 2003, Sahimi has written many articles on the subject of Iranian politics (particularly theIranian nuclear programme) for websites such as Payvand,Antiwar[6]and theHuffington Post.[7]He has been a regular columnist forTehran Bureausince 2008,[8]and has written occasional pieces for theLos Angeles Times,[9]theNew York Times,[10]theWall Street Journal[11]theHarvard International Review[12]andThe Progressive.[13]
He has, on many occasions, defended Iran's nuclear program as being peaceful, and the actions of Iran as being essentially legal and justifiable (originally in a seven-part series atPayvandentitledIran's Nuclear Program).[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]In the process, he has frequently leveled criticism against other writers on the subject, accusing Con Coughlin (of the UK Daily Telegraph) of knowingly spreading lies and disinformation,[21]and David Albright of exceptional bias.[22](Albright responded to the criticism in a program on antiwar radio).[citation needed]He has also criticized two former Deputy Directors-General of the IAEA,Olli HeinonenandPierre Goldschmidt,citing unnamed sources to accuse Heinonen of breaking the IAEA protocols by leaking confidential information (to David Albright) and of spreading unconfirmed claims about the contents of a laptop that was supposedly stolen from Iran and given to Western intelligence agencies, as part of a "crusade against Iran."[22]He also accused Goldschmidt of having a "personal agenda"[23]about Iran's nuclear program, while also disputing his assessment that Iran has violated the NPT.
In his writings on Iran's nuclear program, Sahimi has also expressed the view that theUnited Nation's Security Council sanction resolutions against Iranare illegal.[24]Because of his strong support for the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program and the similarity of his arguments to those used by the Iranian government in its IAEA submissions,[25]he has been accused of being close to the government in Tehran. Sahimi has denied these accusations but has stated that his articles have been used without his knowledge by members of the Iranian political establishment, includingAyatollah Rafsanjani.[26]
Books
[edit]- Applications of Percolation Theory(1994)[27]
- Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock(1995); second edition (2011).[28]
- Heterogeneous Materials I, Linear Transport, and Optical Properties(2003)[29]
- Heterogeneous Materials II, Nonlinear and Breakdown Properties and Atomistic Modeling(2003)[30]
Notes
[edit]- ^"Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Muhammad Sahimi".Chems.usc.edu. Archived fromthe originalon 1 November 2011.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran Coverage Experts: No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program |".Irancoverage. 5 November 2007.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Muhammad Sahimi CV"(PDF).USC Viterbi School of Engineering.Retrieved26 December2017.
- ^"2023 Fellows".APS Fellow Archive.American Physical Society.Retrieved19 October2023.
- ^"Reformists on the Rise".Tehran Bureau /FRONTLINE.PBS.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Muhammad Sahimi".Original.antiwar.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Muhammad Sahimi".HuffPost.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Spotlight: Muhammad Sahimi – Tehran Bureau | FRONTLINE".PBS. 1 March 2010.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^Sahimi, Muhammad (22 June 2007)."Iranian American is twice victimized".Los Angeles Times.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^Sahimi, Muhammad (28 April 2009)."Op-Ed – Iran's Power Struggle".The New York Times.Iran.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^http://viterbi.usc.edu/assets/022/12892.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^"Forced to Fuel – Iran's Nuclear Energy Program".Harvard International Review.6 May 2006.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^""Leave Us Alone," Iranian Reformers Say ".The Progressive.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Program. Part I: Its History".Payvand.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Program. Part II: Are Nuclear Reactors Necessary?".Payvand. 14 August 2003.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Program. Part III: The Emerging Crisis".Payvand. 12 September 2003.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Energy Program. Part IV: Economic Analysis of the Program".Payvand.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Energy Program. Part V: From the United States Offering Iran Uranium Enrichment Technology to Suggestions for Creating Catastrophic Industrial Failure".Payvand.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Energy Program, Part VI: The European Union's Proposal, Iran's Defiance, and the Emerging Crisis".Payvand.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Energy Program. Part VII: Are Referral of Iran's Nuclear Dossier to the Security Council and Resolutions 1696, 1737, and 1747 Legal?".Payvand.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^Muhammad Sahimi (18 February 2009)."Who's Telling the Truth About Iran's Nuclear Program?".Antiwar.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^abMuhammad Sahimi (18 March 2009)."A New Judith Miller for Iran Hawks?".Antiwar.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Energy Program. Part VII: Are Referral of Iran's Nuclear Dossier to the Security Council and Resolutions 1696, 1737, and 1747 Legal?".Payvand. 12 May 2007.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^"Iran's Nuclear Energy Program. Part VII: Are Referral of Iran's Nuclear Dossier to the Security Council and Resolutions 1696, 1737, and 1747 Legal?".Payvand.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^e.g.,"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 11 September 2010.Retrieved20 September2009.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^"The Drumbeats of War with Iran Are Getting Louder".Tehran Bureau / FRONTLINE.PBS. 8 August 2010.Retrieved21 October2011.
- ^Zallen, Richard (27 January 1994).Applications of Percolation Theory (9780748400768): M Sahini, M Sahimi: Books.ISBN0748400761.
- ^Zoback, Mark D. (22 February 1995).Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock: From Classical Methods to Modern Approaches (9783527292608): Muhammad Sahimi: Books.ISBN3527292608.
- ^Dauxois, Thierry (15 May 2003).Heterogeneous Materials I: Linear Transport and Optical Properties (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics) (v. 1) (9780387001678): Muhammad Sahimi: Books.ISBN0387001670.
- ^"Heterogeneous Materials II: Nonlinear and Breakdown Properties and Atomistic Modeling: v. two eBook: Muhammad Sahimi: Kindle Store".Amazon.Retrieved21 October2011.
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