Isolating Iran? Najmedin Meshkati and Guive Mirfendereski, Najmedin Meshkati is a professor of engineering at USC and was a senior science and engineering advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State (2009-10). Guive Mirfendereski, an international lawyer and lecturer in legal studies at Brandeis University, is the author of "A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries and Other Stories."