Essan Mohebi's moral and psychological dilemma: a surgeon exiled from Iran must choose between professional duty to save a child and conscience/fear about enabling a brutal regime and endangering family at home.
Essan Mohebi's moral and psychological dilemma: a surgeon exiled from Iran must choose between professional duty to save a child and conscience/fear about enabling a brutal regime and endangering family at home.
Events in This Arc
A routine, intimate exchange in the President's bedroom — Abbey asking for lists, playful banter with Charlie, and household teasing — is abruptly converted into a national moral dilemma when …
In the Outer Oval, President Bartlet confronts Dr. Essan Mohebi — the only surgeon capable of a life‑saving heart-and-lung transplant for the Ayatollah's teenage son. Mohebi refuses on moral grounds …