In the first instance you take BCG and make it available to those with autoimmune diseases.
See eg pubmed.org faustman dl and faustmanlab.org etc.
While Denise L Faustman is entitled to jump through FDA hoops, Iranians know that you can do good work in a variety of places and that upon examination of her work and the work of others who use BCG, you can do the same in Iran and or Italy etc before she will ever raise the $28,000,000 need for a silly Phase 2 FDA study.
Shoot BCG and build your atom bombs by copying working designs including those that were once on the public library shelves in the US. Do not forget to jacket your device in Cobalt and adjust its design parameters to produce the maximum amount of cobalt 60.
Better Yet, make a Sam Stone Memorial Neutron Bomb. Sam Stone's device should be adequately described in the literature around the world.
Don't forget to sell your Sam Stone T shirts at a good price.
TEHRAN
— Sitting in his office at Tehran’s only Jewish hospital, Ciamak
Morsadegh lit another cigarette and reminisced about how his wife left
Iran for the United States after he insisted on staying.
Dr.
Morsadegh, the director of the Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center
here, said that unlike thousands of other Jews he has never thought
about leaving the Islamic Republic, for the simple reason that Iran is
his home.
“I
speak English, I pray in Hebrew, but I think in Persian,” said Dr.
Morsadegh, a surgeon who is also a member of Parliament. “I am Iranian.
Iranian-Jewish.”
Many were surprised last week when the government of President Hassan Rouhani donated $400,000 to the Dr. Sapir Hospital, but Dr. Morsadegh was not among them.
“We
Jews are a part of Iran’s history,” he said. “What is important is that
Mr. Rouhani makes big news out of supporting us. He is showing that we,
as a religious minority, are part of this country, too.”
Situated
on Mostafa Khomeini Street — named for the son of the Islamic
Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — the hospital sits
across from the Imam Reza Seminary school, one of the oldest Shiite
seminaries in Tehran. White-turbaned clerics pass by, talking in hushed
tones with their students. Though the hospital might seem out of place,
local people do not seem to think so.
“When
I am sick I go across the street,” Mohammad Mirghanin, a seminary
student, said as he rushed to class. “They might have a different
religion, but they are fellow Iranians. I do not see why I should not go
to the Jewish hospital.”
On
Saturday, a woman in a traditional black chador approached Khoddad
Asnashahri, the hospital’s managing director and a Muslim, and asked for
help.
“I
went to the Iman Khomeini hospital with my daughter who needs a
sonogram, but over there it costs 500,000 to man,” or roughly $200, said
the woman, Zahra Hajabdolmaleki.
“We will help you here for half that amount,” Mr. Asnashahri pledged.
Named
after a Jewish doctor who died in 1921 while trying to cure patients
during a typhus epidemic raging through Tehran, the hospital started out
as a clinic where all Iranians could come for medical care at vastly
reduced rates. For more than 50 years it has been a meeting point for
Iranian Jews and Muslims and the most prominent Jewish charity in the
capital.
Mr.
Asnashahri, who has worked at the hospital for nearly 48 years, praised
the “good atmosphere” while also noting that only five Jewish
physicians remained. “Many have migrated and others have bought shares
in more modern hospitals,” he said.
About
96 percent of patients are Muslim, like most of the hospital’s
employees. But what mattered most, he said, was the message that “here
all people can come, no matter what religion, color or race.”
Though
the Jewish population of Iran is dwindling — now at about 9,000,
according to an official census by the Statistical Center of Iran,
though other estimates range to 20,000 — the country has the largest
number of Jews in the Middle East after Israel.
Dr.
Morsadegh, the surgeon, has devoted his life to that diminishing
community. He was a leader of the Tehran Jewish Committee, a group that
supports synagogues, schools and other facets of Jewish life in Iran,
and in 2008 was elected as the Jewish representative in Parliament,
where five official religious minorities have a permanent seat.
He
will not say that the situation for Jews and the other official
religious minorities — Christian Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and
Zoroastrians — is perfect in Iran. The five minorities would like to see
an Islamic law changed that allows one of their faith who converts to
Islam to get the entire inheritance of his or her non-Muslim family, for
example. Yet things are worse for evangelical Christians and Bahais,
who can face prison sentences and in many cases exclusion from higher
education.
Dr.
Morsadegh said former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s repeated
Holocaust denials left psychological scars, as well. “Look, all Jews
believe in the Holocaust,” he said. “It would have been much better if
the former president had not raised that issue.”
President Rouhani has remained silent on the Holocaust, and in September his social media team wished Jews around the world a happy Rosh Hashana.
“It
has gotten a lot better,” Dr. Morsadegh said, recalling how thousands
of Jews left the country after the 1979 revolution. Many more have
emigrated since then, often because of Iran’s bad economy.
Though
Dr. Sapir Hospital is Jewish owned, there is not much that would remind
one of Jewish heritage. On the wall of Dr. Morsadegh’s office are two
portraits of Iran’s past and current supreme leaders, facing a painting
of Moses holding up the Ten Commandments.
In
September, Dr. Morsadegh joined President Rouhani on his trip to the
United Nations in New York. Some in Iran have hinted at a connection
between the president’s financial donation to the hospital and Dr.
Morsadegh’s enthusiastic defense of Iran and the position of Jews in the
country.
But
the doctor is not bothered by those questions. “I helped out in the war
with Iraq for this country, as a first aid doctor,” he said. “And I’d
do it again tomorrow.”
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