Are the Iranians making nuclear weapons

 Are the Iranians really making nuclear weapons or do they just want us to believe they are cooking up a bomb?

Iran has the second largest oil reserves in the world next to Saudi Arabia and they pump millions of gallons of oil a year, yet they have no refineries and depend on other countries to make their gasoline … which is shipped to Iran and sold at a government-subsidized price of less than 30 cents a gallon because their economy is so poor. Cutting off gasoline is a primary sanction being weighed by nations concerned with Iran’s rhetoric.

Iran has proven itself unreliable in honoring contracts with companies outside their borders, and probably equally dysfunctional with companies inside their border. Iran doesn’t have expertise in banking or commerce because their top appointments must first meet strict religious criteria, and these people make all national decisions by consulting ancient religious writings. Their system is rendered archaic by the effort to throw everything back to an era when the world held fewer people and fewer ideas.

Iran has shown itself to be weak and unable to function cohesively, yet we are to believe they have pulled together all the missing talents needed to make nuclear weapons. This is especially mind-boggling when they can’t serve their own population and muster enough planning to build refineries for their own oil.

No wonder the Iranian leaders don’t want inspections. What inspectors might find could make everybody laugh. Of course we wouldn’t laugh for fear of enraging groups of people who want to step into the future by resurrecting the past, but peculiarly these stalwarts of 'the way of the past' are willing to use the most sophisticated modern technology to do it. These people are very aware of the advantages held by global economies and advanced technologies.
 
Overall, it’s difficult to believe that the leadership of Iran that doesn’t want people giggling on a cell phone or watching the Flintstones on TV is destined to be in power for very long. What's happening in the Middle East is that their cultures are changing so fast that the religious revival movement has emerged as a way to slow down the change, but these movements always fade away in favor of something more attuned to the public need.

Let’s don’t take the Iranian bait. Let’s wait for this leadership to pass, both in their country and ours, and then find a way to get all the ancient religions to rewrite ‘compromise’ into their doctrines and stop squabbling over whose old history carries the most import.
In order to move into the future, sometime you have to leave the past behind, and that will happen quicker if we stay out of a fight with Iran.

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The Middle East is basically fighting over whose ancient history carries the greatest import.
But who's history is it when people have moved about the globe and intermarried with each other since the beginning of time? Most of us come from a long variety of sources, and this means that few people really have a true genetic link to any specific history, and fewer yet to the history they are willing ‘to die for.’

The issue today is about religion, and that’s just a fancied-up word for ‘who can remember.’
Nobody remembers why the fight originally started.
Instead the fight is perpetuated by people who blindly follow ‘words’ written down within the past few thousand years. And to solve this problem, maybe it’s time to revisit those words and give them an update so that religion can accept the actual diversity that is carried within the human genome.

Gene Haynes