Another SPND Casualty
Another SPND Casualty So it's been a little while since senior SPND official, Ali Fouladvand ( علی فولادوند , national ID: 4189670219), was killed by airstrikes. Fouladvand’s loss is another blow to SPND. The 47-year-old was the head of SPND’s Research Directorate, in charge of coordinating the organisation’s internal R&D efforts on advanced technologies. Fouladvand was one of SPND’s nuclear specialists. Before joining SPND, he’d won plaudits for his work on radiological plume modelling . Scientific publications show that he’d worked on various projects with SPND senior physicist Behzad Ahadi Bileh Daragh ( بهزاد احمدی بیله درق ), who we’ve previously written about . You don’t rise to such a senior position in SPND without at least some intellectual chops – and it was no doubt helpful that as a nuclear specialist, he was working on a topic which was the jewel in the crown of SPND’s activities. On the other hand, for all of his modest academic qualities, Fouladvand wasn...