Re: Poor "Jim Pennino" :-)

One of the major decision makers in Iran today said, "If Americans know how to negotiate, let them negotiate with the Yemenis." Hehehe :)
Hehe :) There's a lot of say in that.. Insight as well as facts about future.
AI activity and development has sped up dramatically in Iran since just last year. Iran's versions of it claim to have been under continual improvements compared to the free Chinese ones. This will speed up some aspects of getting just about anything done. It is a huge time saver.
One of the reasons the explosion could happen in Iran's Persian Gulf port was the lack of AI systems to do the bulk of near-manual red tape, and they've immediately begun implementing new systems that enjoy specially made AI to create ample time to analyze dangerous movements and placements of goods, intended or unintended, and bringing down wait time of the goods before they are shipped away throughout Iran.
The enemy took advantage of the lack of such systems to plan the explosion.
Every port now, at Persian Gulf and Sea of Omman and the Caspian Sea, all, are rapidly getting equipped with such management tools. They're even impeaching the minister of roads (she is in charge of the ports as well) for not doing this months back, cause the systems were at hand for making such important improvements when she became minister. She didn't move fast enough.
The equivalent concept of "food stamp" in here, is now fully tested in Iran and has just been implemented for every Iranian living too close or under the poverty level. The cards' buying power automatically increase as inflation makes prices to go up.
Food has always been subsidized in Iran by the government, based on food items and not the level of individuals' income, but that system always created fraud between companies receiving subsidies and the government.
By introduction of food stamps, the problem of fraud will literally disappear, and only those eligible will enjoy the help, not everybody rich and poor.
It was due a long time ago (in Shah's time in fact) but I guess had to wait till today's Iran where computerized control can be easily and quickly created in handling complex situations in extremely large volumes.
They've also got time now to deal with Brain-Drain problem!.. It will get harder and harder, very soon, and much faster than before, to get all the help that government provides for students in obtaining advanced degrees, and ending up losing them to other countries. In a smaller scale this effort began about 20 years back, but things have sped up dramatically now.
USA stopped being the main recipient of these expert Iranians already decades back, thanks to USA's own nature changing to that of a Nazi state. Even my generation literally met a Nazi state that resented making use of us.
But problem with Canada and France and Germany and to some extent Britain continued and continues. They've kept absorbing many of these experts for their own uses, and recently China and Russia also have been added to the list.
But the case for China and Russia is not a total loss because dual citizens in the two countries is something Iran needs right now. But as soon as the numbers get there and the niche is saturated, these two countries also will see difficulty in absorbing Iranian experts.
Iran can start that control today because situation for experts themselves has totally changed inside Iran. For the first time, every one of them is needed inside, complete with nice salaries and ample room to advance themselves. This is a new reality in Iran, only about 10 years or even less old. Unfortunately it has not become widespread enough yet to cover everybody, expert or not. But that day will come too.