Noel, Iran thinks it's a good idea to blow up infidels. I don't really care what insane people think. I only want to know enough of what they think to avoid having them blow me up. <Iran doesn't agree with you.
The US has megaloads of hydrocarbons too.>
Noel, I know this is tough to understand as it's immensely complex mathematics and economically conceptually difficult, but the USA imports a LOT of hydrocarbons because they want to use a LOT more than they have available in the USA, at current prices, while Iran has a LOT more hydrocarbons available than they need locally, which is why they signed large export contracts with China [which does need the hydrocarbons for their huge population and rapid industrialisation] and are thinking of building a pipeline to India [which will cost $billions to build and be geopolitically risky - a strategic weakness crossing Afghanistan and Pakistan to get to India].
Geode can't understand that economic information, but I hope you are able to because it's crucial to understanding the situation. It's only one sentence long, so it shouldn't be too tough. Being a registered international financial expert, I can see those difficult ideas, but Geode can barely count to ten, even using both fingers and toes, so has trouble with really big numbers with lots and lots of zeroes and with different units such as dollars, kilometres, petajoules, barrels, bushells, rads, rabids and lumens, which are scientific descriptions of different physical quantities. Wikipedia can help with understanding those and seeing the light.
Best wishes and good luck with understanding how we can know that Iran wants The Bomb rather than nuclear energy.
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