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DJ is proving to be a great investigator, who of course has his own background, interests and modus operandi; let’s hope he too will “take a leaf out of Dr. Farrell’s book” by writing and publishing his own book – footnoted of course – to bring his discoveries out of the ephemeral world of specialised podcasts.

more Iran – NK buddy best pals.. http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920429001086

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“Larijani said Iran is fully prepared to improve cooperation with North Korea in different fields including industry, trade, technology, investment in infrastructures, mine extraction, and exports of agricultural equipments, and added that Iran’s private sector enjoys proper a capability to export technical and engineering services to the East Asian state.”

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-iran-media-weighs-trumps-nuclear-deal-pullout-55034646
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“A prominent Iranian lawmaker says parliament is preparing to increase spending on the country’s ballistic missile program.
The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, made the comments Wednesday after President Donald Trump’s decision to pull America out of the nuclear deal.
One of Trump’s criticisms of the deal has been the fact it does not address Iran’s missile program.
Boroujerdi said: “With America’s decision, Iran’s missile program will not change at all.”

This article shows what the stakes are..

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pyongyang-tehran-axis-1521068215

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“For years Iran watched Pyongyang play the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations to advance its nuclear and missile programs. The Kim regime demonstrated how a relatively weak country could persuade the U.S. to yield on major concessions along a patient pathway to nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The Islamic Republic followed North Korea’s lead when it negotiated the enrichment of uranium and potential reprocessing of plutonium on its own soil, crossing what for years had been an international red line. In exchange for short-lived restrictions (referred to as the Sunset provisions) on its nuclear program, missiles and conventional arms, Tehran will soon have industrial-size capabilities to enrich uranium and possibly reprocess plutonium for atomic weapons, nuclear-capable missiles, and hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.”

In other words, I would like to see a military coup in Iran. where the mecca-born mullahs are swept aside, and the country revives its space and nuclear industry (and way beyond). Reason is that Iran will not be allowed to succeed economically (not that they are all that good at it, most of the problems are endemic, and not caused by sanctions) it has no choice but to develop leverage like North Korea. Point nukes at Paris, London, and negotiate, with an MRBM ready for deployment to Europe. Not to use the weapon, but to be on level ground when negotiating.

Mullahs laid off all space agency scientists and all nuclear scientists to make Obama happy. But they are still around, and it is not too late to reemploy them. Technology is key for any developing country, and if it cannot be developed in the consumer sector, then it has to be driven by the state in the military sector.

And for the record, I was against the JCPOA when I read some of the stuff there, and I suggested that this government should resign rather than sell the country so cheaply (because I knew that USA never delivers on its promises). I said so at the time, it is on record, in my emails. So, the hell with the JCPOA. However, I don’t want to see ordinary people suffer in Iran, or anywhere … so war would be terrible for Iran but it will not be without consequences for the West and Europe in particular will be flooded with more refugees. If you like more moslem immigrants coming to Europe, go to war with Iran.

And I do not support regime change imposed from the outside, or the rule of the mob taking to the streets to l lynch the current rulers, only to replace them with another bunch of opportunists who want to fill their pockets. A revolution would create an opportunity for foreign meddling as well, and the partition of the country (which is what USraudi wants — US, Israel, Saudi). The US may use Iran as a base to spread Islamic fundamentalism into the Caucasus and Central Asia, as it has done countless times before (including in Iran, when mullahs acknowledged they fooled the US to think that once they come to power they will only fight the commies, not the USA, but it turned out differently).

As for North Korea & Iran, yes, there was very close cooperation esp. during the Iran-Iraq war, when the entire world sold arms (and chem weapons) to Saddam, while placing an arms embargo on Iran. Thanks to the Shah’s incompetence in developing a truly indigenous military industry, at that time Iran could only maufacture light weapons and ammunition. North Korea was the only country (except for Syria) that would sell arms to Iran. Sure, what country would refuse such an offer under such circumstances?

Trumps reasoning for initiating hostilities are two fold, 1) He believes he is fulfilling right wing Christian movements beliefs in that Israel’s Jerusalem would become the capital, its one of their “prophecies.” 2) By creating conflict, it makes it nearly impossible to drag him in front of Mueller and charge/bring impeachment papers. Nobody removes a “war time potus.”
To the other folks trying to explain why I need to understand Talismans & Incantations to understand the past to understand the future; 1) I do believe the past is coming back around, the past I reference is The Wiemar Republic / pre WWII Germany is much like our country now. 2) I don’t believe in magic (I do believe there may be something to the “power of intention.”) but magic spells making space ships fly is so beyond the norms of any understood physics that I reject it until I see absolute proof. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”