What do you know? they might have all that; they are at the edge of sciences in R&D, and they are coming with new civilian products that are beneficial to all humanity, just read about their recent nano-technologies and stem cells achievements, despite the very heavy sanctions imposed on them. They have even succeeded in cold fusion reactors, witch, I do not think your country the Netherlands has done.
There are many people who think that Iran has to abide by world standards in its military hardware, but it is not the case, from what I understand, they are tailor making their designs to suit their needs in their Area, and they are making them the most possibly efficient weapons, because they understand from their experience of war that the efficiency and the availability of the weapon is more important than the look or the international standard, as long as it can do the job it is intended to do with precision and efficiency than there is absolutely no difference, only in cost; if an air to air missile succeeds at shooting down an enemy's warplane, it does not matter much if its name is AMRAMM or another less known name, it is the results that count. So what one should understand is that Iran is strengthening itself militarily to prevent any major world power from attacking it militarily, they have prepared themselves against a major US attack, so any less powerfull nation won't even think about war with Iran, even the US do not think about it anymore, they prefer to use more sanctions knowing that many of their friends and allies along many other nations will suffer too, so either it is out of bad politics, confusion in its own political ranks, or pure madness.
