پیامی از دکتر ابرهارد ریدل (یکی از سخنرانان خارجی کارگاه بین المللی اختفا)
Dear Atila,
in the meantime I am safely home again and full of wonderful experiences and good impressions. It was so good to meet your lovely wife and all your friends and collegues.
I must congratulate you for organizing this successful workshop so well! The event had a high scientific level. I always felt safe and very comfortable and the hotels and the food were excellent. Also the receptions by the officials of the Cultural Heritage Organization put a very honorful frame to this event. I personally felt very honored and will report to the IOTA-community about the perfect Iranian hospitality I received.
I was so sorry for having to leave so early yesterday. But this way I was safe to reach my flights back in time which was so urgent because I had another important meeting in Frankfurt today as you know. So also this went well and Farzaneh did a great job to get me safe to the airport, to show me the way, to supply me there with food and beverages and to wait until I finally had to check in. I think also she did a great job at the workshop which naturally wasn't always easy for her both understanding the sometimes complicated details and then to also translate it perfectly.
Let me express my deep gratitude to you for having given me the chance to be in your wonderful country once again. You also did very much for me personally during the workshop which I appreciate very much. I wished I would have had more days. So there is no question I would love to come back some other time, even without a big workshop like this one.
You and your friends can be certain I will do the best I can to support you also in the future, and this holds for my friends too. A continuing exchange between our organizations is also a big advantage for the rest of IOTA just when I think of your new occultation timing technique that is of high interest for European and American observers as well.
So let's stay in close contact for future common goals. All the best for you, your wife and your friends,
Eberhard