I just recently (in March) attended a biomechanical engineering conference in Portugal.
One of the interesting aspect of this conference was the number of of Iranian delegates who were originally Iranians and were now representing other universities. (There were a few Iranians who were also from Iran, I will get to that later!)
on average there were 40 oral presentations per 3.5 days. So, that makes about 140 presentation! (This is quite rough estimation, though)
Out of these 140, there were 7 oral presenters who were from Europe or US and the presenter was Iranian in origin. Add to this three more presenters who didn't show up, according to head of the conference because of sanctions towards Iranians, they didn't get visa to attend the conference!
On the other hand, I looked at the presenters with Arab origin. To my knowledge, there was only one I saw who was from a University from Finland! I attend his presentation, he got quite disappointing respond from experts!
I also saw one seeming Arab name who didn't attend. so, in total there were 2.
Having said that about 7 to 8 percent of the conference can be said were Iranians.
This percentage may be extended and extrapolated to other conferences. Just ask a few non-Iranians in your university!
I wonder with all these sanctions and lack of support in science and technology Iranians participate in such a great number at science stages, what would have happened if Iran was part of greater world community!
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