Why can’t Iran have nuclear weapons?

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• The Hannibal Directive of Masada may be an inspiration for the amoral IDF currently committing GENCOIDE IN GAZA AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN RESIDENTS. However, can we be hopeful; that Bibi the Butcher lacks the stomach to self-destruct ..... preferring to become the Adam in the succeeding dystopian post apocalyptic world??

  But what if the only surviving ''Eve'' is a Palestinian or Christian woman??

• NEC, “THE INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN RESIDENTS”

  This rampant misuse of the term indigenous serves no good purpose. Palestinians like all other members of our unique and essentially genetically identical species originated in Africa. If they had originated in Palestine they would be a different species from the rest of us and this is clearly not the case. We are all of the same species and our species originated in Africa. Homo sapiens are indigenous to Africa, nowhere else.

  This constant and ubiquitous misuse of the term serves only to misinform and mislead the public and permits it to be weaponised for the purpose of creating division amongst people based on something they have absolutely no control over nor responsibility for, that is, their birth. People are encouraged to discriminate against other people not on the basis of their behaviour but upon the circumstances of their birth. Natalists, Nationalists or Nazis, you can call it what you like but you can’t blame the intolerance of any people of our common genetic race on racism. Not now that genetic science has open our eyes to the stark reality that there is no evidence whatsoever to support the belief in different races. Racism is just another ignorant act of faith, a denial of reality.

  Just the other night on Q&A when the discussion turned to immigration, one of the panelists made the point that all Australian’s are united by the common fact that they are all either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Immediately the presenter reacted with the devisive dogmatic reflex, “except the indigenous peoples of Australia!” There are no indigenous people of Australia. Everyone in Australia came from some where else or are descended from ancestors who came from some where else and ultimately all Australian people and all of the world’s people are descended from ancestors that originated in Africa.

  The term indigenous is being misused as a claim and an excuse for privileged treatment over universal human rights with no justification whatsoever. Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians who are genetically no different from themselves. There is no genetic excuse. People don’t have to be indigenous to be permitted to reside in their homes without being exterminated by real estate developers.

• "Why can’t Iran have nuclear weapons?" Because they might attack The Donalds hair and mess it up.

• More BS from BS, the AIMN's resident tin-foil hat wearer.

• Yes, Canguro, some words trigger him, the chief one being “Indigenous”. Which means the first known inhabitants of a place. The first known inhabitants of Australia are the Aboriginals, which is Latin for original inhabitants.

• Roswell,

  What triggers me is the misinformation spread by the ubiquitous misuse of words. The purpose of language is communication, and the constant misuse of words either through ignorance or deliberate intent only serves to stifle communication of the truth.

  Aboriginal is the word that is properly used to describe the first known inhabitants of a place, as in reference to the aboriginals of the Americas, who were the original human inhabitants of those continents. The gen in indigenous is derived from the same gen you will find in genesis and genetics and it refers to origins. Indigenous refers to where inhabitants originated as a species. Over long periods of evolutionary time island habitats may produce unique species that are indigenous, ie that originated there and nowhere else. Apart from bats, there are no indigenous mammals in New Zealand and humans only arrived there about a thousand years ago.

  Australia is an island continent long separated from the rest of the world. That’s why marsupials and monotremes exist here and have disappeared from the rest of the world. Similarly, early primates such as Lemurs exist in the island of Madagascar but no longer in Africa and since the separation from the mainland have evolved into species indigenous to Madagascar and naturally exist nowhere else.

  There were never any primates in Australia that could evolve into indigenous humans. Don’t take my word for it, consult the geneticists who have now mapped the human genome. They will tell you that there is only one species or race of human beings still extant on the planet and that species originated in Africa. The isolation endured by the first people to arrive in Australia has not been long enough for a new indigenous species to evolve. Therefore, there are no indigenous people in Australia. To assert that there is serves, as I have said, the ignorant beliefs of racists who wish to divide humanity up into those who deserve privileges and those who do not, all based on solely on the nature of a person’s birth.

  There are no indigenous people of Australia. Merely being born here makes you a native (derived from the same word as natal) whether your parents are brand new immigrants or if your ancestors arrived here sixty thousand years ago. Genetically speaking, there is virtually no difference between two such new born babies. People aren’t born racists. They have to be taught to be racist, often by ignorant idiots who obliviously or perhaps deliberately spread divisive lies with their careless use of the language.

• Hopeless.

• Sully,

  Point of order: there are plenty of marsupials in the Americas. Around 100 species if I remember correctly, approximately one third of the global total.

  The remainder of your bigoted lecture is not worth wasting my time on.

• The significance of This question about Iran is being ignored in the corporate media. Trump's ultimatum to Iran demands that Iran should be denied a nuclear weapon; denied inter-continental missiles, and denied too other asymmetric and conventional weapons capabilities. All these demands go beyond the NPT and the existing JCPOA. Trump has made those demands previously, but today he says: If Iran “doesn’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before”.

• It's not a 'coalition of the willing', it's a 'coalition of big-chesting lunatics'. A conga-line of unimaginative potty-sitting cowards. Right now, through the gob of T-Rump and his flunkies, there's provocation, disingenousness and back-flips piled high upon one another. And almost all others are dancing their part in the brutal stupidity, including Britain, Europe, Oz, Zelenski etc - it's sewer of schoolyard Machiavellianism, everyone held to ransom. It's flooding our TVs and news big-time. All this as an attempt to reinforce America's crumbling hegemony, apparently by design to get at China and also Iran (to leverage out Central Asia and Bibi's broader Levant).

  T-Rump's latest to the Mega-Corps, "Don't worry about the bourse, check out the bond market." Never mind the splatter of ordinary salary and wage earners, the unfortunates and the disabled.

  Just the same old coercion, extortion and thievery.