I'm down-voting you (and not only you, to be fair) because you are hell-bent on creating a discussion against Iranian politics in a thread about the tragic, early death of a brilliant mathematician who happened to be an Iranian-American (and also, more notably, a woman). It's not the time nor the place.

I didn't downvote you, but my guess would be the 9/11 remark, which doesn't seem to connect with the rest of your argument.

You've done more than anyone else to take this thread into flamewar hell. If HN can't discuss Maryam Mirzakhani without degenerating into a shitstorm about "the terrorist act of 9/11", then we've failed. It's time to stop this now and never do it on HN again.

We all have strong emotions about the life-and-death issues that affect our nations, tribes, and families (or feel like they do). Mostly such issues are off-topic on HN and their mesmerizing power needs to be resisted—or else every thread can easily become about nothing but that. Considering how fire consumes everything in its path the term 'flame+war' is strikingly apropos for the phenomenon, and every HN user is responsible for containing it.

As an Iranian, I can't wait for the day where the online post of my death – should I become half the person Maryam Mirzakhani was – mutates into an argument about Iran's ties to terrorism and 9/11.

You are either being purposely obtuse or don't see the hypocrisy of your statements regarding supporting terrorism and the US.

> You are either being purposely obtuse or don't see the hypocrisy

Personal attacks and incivility will get you banned here. Please don't post like this regardless of how unfair or wrong you think someone else is.

The majority of 9/11 attackers were Saudi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

Iran is our natural ally in the region.