"Thanks, Iran Nuclear Deal!"

     Thanks to the Iran Nuclear Deal that was going to make the world "much safer," according to the words of our Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama Administration, Iran has become a much more dangerous country than it was before!  The infusion of much needed cash, huge sums of money, and lifting of sanctions allowed Iran immediately to not only purchase more arms from Russia, but also speed up their weapons development.  We have been hearing regularly about illegal missile testing that Iran has been conducting, but that is not all.  They have been developing weapons at all stages, and no doubt are engaged in nuclear development as well, albeit in total secrecy!
     The latest announcement by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, that of the development of a "suicide drone" is truly a disturbing piece of news.  It isn't so much that they have the scientific and technological know-how to make drones that is disturbing, it is what this development actually signifies!  The drone itself,  called Radd 85 and nick-named Saegheh  (which means Thunderbolt in Farsi) is no big deal.  It is not anywhere as sophisticated or technologically advanced as our drones that we employ in warfare.  The Radd 85 is only a few stages ahead of the German V-1 unmanned rocket of World War Two or the Japanese MXY-7 Ohka (Baka bomb) Kamikaze manned rockets.  Those were truly primitive by today's standards, sort of like a flintlock rifle versus today's M-4 or similar combat rifle.  The Iranian Radd 85 would fall in the category of say, an M-1 rifle when compared with the more sophisticated drones of today.  However, just as the M-1 rifle is technologically inferior to the M-4, it is still effective and it will kill!
     The Radd 85 Saegheh travels at the speed of around 160 miles per hour.  It flies at an altitude of around 3000 feet and has a range of about 600 miles.  That is plenty to do damage to ships or land targets!  The problem with the German World War Two V-1 was that it was "unguided."  It had to be fired like an artillery round and hoped for the best.  The Japanese manned MXY-7, of course, could be more accurate because a pilot could guide it to the target, before it was shot down!  The Iranian's suicide drone Radd 85 can be guided remotely, plus, it has stealth capability, having been built with materials that can deflect radar detection.  So, despite lagging our drones in technology and sophistication, they are still far superior to anything that was available before to Iranians, and most of all, to those terror groups that they support and supply arms!
     The most dangerous part of this whole new scenario is if the Radd 85 will fall into the hands of terrorists, which will happen!  Iran is the world's biggest sponsor of Islamic terror groups.  In short, Iran is a terrorist state itself! It is a given that once the production of Radd 85 gets going, it will be delivered to the various terror groups that Iran sponsors, and will be sold to other groups that perhaps Iran is not sponsoring but willing to sell.  So, despite the fact that Iran is supposedly involved in fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq does not preclude the likelihood that ISIS will end up buying some of these suicide drones through third party.  ISIS, and other terror groups in fact never buy arms directly from the seller, they use third, some times multiple parties and fronts to purchase arms.  That is why, for the most part, arms sellers can never be sure who will be the end user.  Despite complicated measures that are in place to prevent misuse of end user documents, weapons legally sold constantly end up in the wrong hands!  That is how North Korea has been able to sell its missiles and other weapons.  Iran is no exception, in fact, in this regard, Iran and North Korea are like peas in a pod!  We, on the otherhand, quite often give weapons to "friendly" forces who sell them to the enemy!
     Earlier there was talk about the fact that North Korea had developed drone technology which although primitive by South Korean standards, still was effective enough to penetrate into South Korea for intelligence gathering purposes.  This was discovered when one of the North Korean drones had malfunctioned and crashed in South Korea.  What was not released in the news was that the South Koreans were surprised to discover that the drone was made of material that would escape radar detection, in other words, it was a stealth drone.  Obviously the stealth technology is not exclusive to us anymore.  So, the fact that both North Korea and Iran have stealth technology is not a surprise anymore. 
     What is disturbing is the fact that no doubt these "suicide drones" will shortly appear in the hands of terrorists.  The fact that North Korea has these drones is not something that we could have prevented.  After all, North Korea has nuclear weapons and it developed its weapons technology on its own.  What bothers me is that in case of Iran, we helped them to develop this newest drone technology and perhaps much more, by actually financing them!  We financed Iran through that disastrous nuclear deal that our administration still insists is the best thing to happen since the dark ages!  There is no doubt that Iran would have eventually come up with the drone technology and other weapons developments in time, but it would have not been so quick, because R&D costs money!  We provided that money!  Now we have to sit and nervously watch and see how soon these new weapons of war will find their way into the hands of other terrorists.  They are already in the hands of two terrorists states, North Korea and Iran, but they haven't yet been distributed to the "other" guys!