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Iran’s geostrategic importance
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Brown Pundits Archive
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Brown Pundits Archive
A good estimator of the (or lack of) geostrategical importance of a country is how much the country itself talks about it. Iran has cut off itself for 35 years, and nobody notice it until the new Shia-sunni issues and the Iran bomb. At this point, Iran should threaten to drop a bomb on itself if they dont get money. Pakistan is another country which constantly scream geostrategic importance. If not for Afghanisthan (an even more godforsaken country), Pakistan would have been forgotten by 1979. Countries taht geostrategically important (China,we are looking at you) never mention that. I do not believe anybody has ever called India Geostrategically important, and we thank god for that.