Iran also wants to leverage its nuclear accomplishments and gain additional ones, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
MEMRI sai Iran wants to be “recognized as a nuclear threshold state with the ability to produce a nuclear bomb within a short time, in order to move towards a nuclear balance of terror in the Middle East, to block European initiatives to include the issue of Iran’s ballistic missile development and its expansion in the region in a new agreement, and to ensure the continued existence of the Iranian regime.”
“Robert Spencer and I experienced several troubling instances in Iceland, but the worst was after the talk, when a group of us went to for a few drinks at a local restaurant-bar. Someone slipped a brew of amphetamines, Ritalin and Ecstasy into Mr. Spencer’s drink. He was hospitalized that night and took the rest of the time in Iceland recovering, but making efforts to continue meetings and to be a good sport about a little sightseeing. No doubt his enemies and detractors celebrated his injury; but they injured an innocent man. They also injured a symbol of freedom and a fighter for the safety that Western democracy provides. His injury represented only a fraction of the injury with which Islamic supremacists and jihadists have already afflicted Western nations.” ~
Michael Crichton pointed out that two 20th century scientific theories, eugenics and Lysenkoism, were broadly accepted by the expert community not because they predicted anything accurately but as a result of becoming too politically prestigious to 
Last week, a 2019 video clip resurfaced showing climate envoy John Kerry’s attempt to reconcile his beliefs about climate change with his practice of flying around the world in private jets.
