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Note: This blog is usually about financial speculation, but I want to discuss the idea of Iran developing a nuclear bomb and actually USING IT.

Living in Israel has it’s own peculiarities. One thing though remains always constant, and I am not talking about the high taxes! I am talking about the fact that at some given time interval, somebody wants to kill you. You might argue that this also occurs in your own country. Well, this is true but to a lesser extent as the magnitude in here.

I am not sure exactly what the Irani president has to do with us though. He says Israel is a threat to the world. He says the jews control the world. He says the Holocaust did not happen. I think deep down inside he doesn’t believe anything he says and I think he does that on purpose because a need to unify people behind him. What better way than anger towards the eternal enemy, the jews. The majority of the Islamic countries are poor and the general public is ignorant. They were raised on the notion to hate the west and Israel in particular. This is his chance to be the leader of Islam and show the west he is not afraid of them.

I am not an expert on nuclear technology but it does seem they strive to get nuclear capacitiy. The Iranis have stated it is for peaceful purposes. Now, if that doesn’t bring a big grin on your face, then I don’t know what will. The big puzzelle I don’t understand though, is why the Irani public doesn’t say to himself “We are a poor country, why doesn’t he use these resources to strengthen the Irani economy instead?”. Well it would actually be a lie to say I don’t understand. The Irani president blinds his public with promises of Islam world domination and the admiration of the whole world. They will all beg them he says to them.

All that being said, I don’t think that at the end, the Irani president will try to nuke us. He is not that stupid. He knows this is a red line he won’t dare to cross. Like I said before, I am not convinced he is a madman. But this doesn’t mean he can’t give the technology to terrorists who would use that as “dirty bombs” around the world. That’s a concern the world will have to take into consideration.

In the meantime, it seems Europe is taking a diplomatic stance, but I hope this is going to change when they will realize that the Irani president is making a mockery of Europe’s impotence to try to stop him.