Iran "exchanges" oil for a nuclear bomb

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President Donald Trump’s decision to completely deprive Iran of oil revenues could fundamentally turn the tide of the black gold market, ”and along with the entire international security system. Tehran said it was ready to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), hinting that it was able to create its own nuclear bomb. But what if Iran already has it?





The so-called "nuclear deal" was concluded in 2015 in order to limit the actively developing nuclear program of the Islamic Republic to the limits of a "peaceful atom". The nuclear weapons club is narrow, and its members are holding back those who want to join them through the NPT, which was signed in 1969. Countries such as India, Pakistan, North Korea and, with a high degree of probability, Israel created their arsenal, although they did not sign the agreement.

There is reason to believe that Tel Aviv is the secret owner of more than a hundred nuclear warheads. It would be very strange if Iran, the main enemy of Israel in the Middle East, did not try to acquire its own nuclear shield. In the eighties after the Iran-Iraq war, the DPRK helped Tehran develop a missile program. It is believed that the North Koreans used the help of Chinese and some Soviet experts.

The first Iranian missile was a copy of the Soviet R-17 missile, created with the assistance of Pyongyang. Based on the North Korean Nodon missile, the Shahab-3 medium-range Iranian missile was developed. Then came “Sajjil” and “Khorramshahr.” Then what happened could be interpreted in different ways. Iran and North Korea "diverged" in the vectors of development of their missile programs. Pyongyang relied on intercontinental ballistic missiles, and Tehran on medium-range missiles. A little later we will return to this issue.

President Trump reintroduced sanctions against Iran in order to force him to "sit at the negotiating table." Initially, exceptions were made for a number of major buyers of Iranian oil, but the head of the White House decided not to renew them from May 1. For the Islamic Republic, this means a loss of about $ 50 billion in export revenue. Of course, something can be compensated for by smuggling, barter and other workarounds. But a blow to Iran the economy it is very serious.

And not only for her. President Vladimir Putin complained with extreme disapproval of US actions:

US decisions related to various sanctions measures against Iran should enter into force in early May. So I can not imagine how the global energy market will respond to this event.


There is something Trump to object to in Tehran itself. The Iranian Foreign Minister said:

The Islamic Republic of [Iran] has many choices, and the country's authorities are studying them, and what you said, withdrawing from the NPT is one of them.


It can be considered that the threat of Iran is not convincing, since the development of nuclear weapons is an extremely complex and very quick task. But what if Tehran already has its own ICBM and nuclear charge?

How can this be possible under the IAEA's nose and the inquisitive gaze of Israel? There is no unequivocal answer, it relates, rather, to conspiracy theology, but has some reasons. Recall Iran’s cooperation with North Korea. Outwardly, it looks as if their missile programs “dispersed”, but what if they simply “complement each other”? Two states, which have been under pressure of sanctions for decades, could agree among themselves to divide competencies and invest very limited resources, in comparison with the United States or Russia, in the development of each direction.

Now Iran has not bad medium-range missiles, and the DPRK has its own ICBMs and nuclear warheads. What if an Iranian nuclear shield is already forged in North Korea?