XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   Iranian and Russian biology scientists formally began sharing research   
   results. This is a part of a series of recent agreements that   
   Pezeshkiyan signed with Russian authorities a couple of weeks back.   
      
   Read this one, "bioweapons" :)   
      
   Iran in fact has a long history of research in bioweapons. It began   
   early in the 1970s. I saw part of the invasive changes that came to the   
   large building in Tehran University that housed physics and math   
   departments in the lowest 3 stories of it, and biology and biophysics   
   departments in the 4th.   
      
   The change was so large that physics department got thrown out of the   
   building :) We moved to a three story new building by the atomic reactor   
   a few kilometers north of Tehran University campus. Math stayed where it   
   was, and all the spaces after physics left were immediately taken over   
   by biology and got packed, literally packed with equipment. The scene   
   was something to see! Oil was bringing in a lot of money and an adequate   
   portion of it was being spent in various university research works. But   
   mainly such research that had military benefits to them, managed to   
   absorb the first waves of it.   
      
   Shah didn't have nukes yet, and Israel had them, then when India began   
   making them Shah chose bioweapons production until Iran also would make   
   nukes. And that's when Carter destroyed the plan.   
      
   Anyway, bioweapons are as effective as nukes, and yet are thousands of   
   times cheaper to develop and make. Faster too. And they don't destroy   
   the infrastructure either. And they don't make sound :)   
      
   When Covid hit Tehran, within just 4 months a variety of vaccines for it   
   were developed in Tehran (about 10 different ones by different   
   institutions). They were all tested and the best one was adopted for   
   mass production. Such "battle-readiness" in total absence of any news of   
   the coming Covid, was pretty impressing.   
      
   I once posted a brief description of each of those vaccines here, and   
   how the best of them proved to be just the type of product that has   
   Iranians' signature all over it: cheap, fast to make, and quite   
   effective. The only shortcoming of it was that it wouldn't prevent you   
   from falling into the death clutches of Covid, but every patient who   
   developed it survived! The vaccinated people's recovery rate from Covid   
   was 100%. Nobody who got it died, but many, many contracted Covid and   
   spent a few weeks of hell, and then fully recovered.   
      
      
   As I expected, Iran has offered both India and Pakestan to help resolve   
   the sudden animosity that developed between them. No telling how, but   
   the offer was made today in fact.   
      
   The useless negotiation is also tomorrow in Omman. Both conceptual and   
   technical teams of both sides will be present, so if one didn't succeed,   
   they save breath and cancel the meeting.   
      
   We'll see.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)