Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, allegedly tried to sell material he believed would go to Iran to build a nuclear bomb.

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    4 months ago

    I don’t get these kinds of folks

    “Hello hostile government that wants to point a gun at the bloc I live in! Have some bullets!”

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    Kudos to the BBC stock photos department. The title photo in this article is unironically on-brand.

    The editor must have been like: “We need a photo of a specific Yakuza crime boss to use in an article about weapons trafficking.” The BBC photos guy goes: “Sure thing! I got one of him grinning while holding a rocket launcher.” Just perfect.

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    I am surprised a Yakuza would be willing to sell nuclear material to Iran, they usually are smarter than that.

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    So does this confirm that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb? Because before they were trying to be ambiguous with whether or not they were.