XPost: uk.d-i-y   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 17/09/2021 12:35, Pancho wrote:   
   > On 17/09/2021 11:43, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >   
   >>> North Korea and Iran being obvious examples where they have/would   
   >>> have utility.   
   >>   
   >> And Israel.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Maybe 50 years ago, maybe in the future, but at the moment they are the   
   > dominant regional power. Additionally, they are protected against these   
   > weaker enemies by US backing.   
   >   
   > I think a lot of the reason Israel and the US suspect Iran of seeking   
   > nuclear weapons is because it is what they would do in Iran's position.   
   >   
   > Personally I'm not so sure. I think the Iranian leadership may think   
   > differently.   
      
   Well I have quite a lot of interest in Iran - I have known many Iranians   
   for reasons I do not understand! - and where the regime is at is using   
   the West much as nicola sturgeon uses england, as a scapegoat for every   
   ill the regime has inflicted on the country.   
      
   This comes to a head with the 'Rothschild conspiracy' which maintains   
   that the Jewish Rothschilds, based in England, are the secret illuminati   
   that are running the world and pissing on Iran, specifically.   
      
   This is OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT POLICY. And believed by the majority of Iranians   
      
      
   To that end it sponsors acts of terrorism to maintain enmity with the   
   UK, America and Israel in order to say 'look, they are waging war   
   against us'. It would love to have nuclear weapons to threaten Israel   
   with.   
      
   And to threaten Britain and the USA with in case we thought of doing a   
   Desert  storm on them.   
      
   Now having nuclear weapons ourselves is no defence against Iran's   
   nuclear weapons. Any use of nuclear weapons against Iran would like   
   arouse sympathy across the islamic diaspora. Use of nuclear weapons by   
   Iran would receive tacit acclaim across the same diaspora. In fact the   
   only thing that works against Islamic militancy is total utter public   
   humiliation.   
      
   --   
   “Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of   
   a car with the cramped public exposure of 
an airplane.”   
      
   Dennis Miller   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)