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Iran has established a robust, indigenous defense industry that manufactures a wide range of missiles and drones, serving as a key pillar of its military strategy. Tehran produces advanced ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions (suicide drones) like the Shahed-136, enabling it to bypass sanctions, export technology to allies, and maintain a low-cost, high-volume arsenal. [
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Yes, Oblama is being a goodwill ambassador like any other former president does and can.
Climate change is a moot point at this point.
China has become the world's largest gasoline refiner and alternative power producer and you feel threatened befcause someone else beat the US at their own game, because MAGATs killed industries created in the US under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
I fear Trump moar since he wants the US to have limited choices of power production.