The most distinct sensory detail, though — one I’ve literally dreamt of as an adult — was the daily, charcoal-thick waft from the Persian market across the street, where Middle Eastern spices ...

just as Iran rose as a threat in 1979, the same year Israel’s greatest enemy for the first three decades of its existence, Egypt, made peace with the Jewish State. That potential threat is Turkey.

Despite lacking sufficient scientific resources and studies in celestial bodies and meteorites, Iran rose from the 122nd to the 2nd place globally—recording the most meteorites discovered by countries ...