Ann: MAK: Seventh Supplementary Bidders Statement, page-7

re: Ann: MAK: Seventh Supplementary Bidders S... Seals, hi
Good on you for following that up with ASIC. I hope I have complained to the right place. I got a "Thank you for raising you concerns with the ASX Group" type of reply. Not expecting much to happen save maybe to limit some of Mr Drummond's worst excesses. The electronic .rtf form allowed one to complain against listed entities as well as organisations involved in the whole share transaction process including the ASX group itself.

On Iran, the Presidential elections are next year and I think Ahmadinejad can't stand for a third term, and Khamenei has mentioned he might have an unelected prime minister chosen by the Majlis instead. Have read Biden's thing again. I've read it 3 times and twice I thought it agreed with your view. Now I think he really does mean that both Khamenei and Ahmadinejad will be gone within 2 years.
The relevant bit from the LA Times is

"The dissension between Ahmadinejad and the supreme leader is palpable. They will not both be around two years from now, and my bet is that Ahmadinejad is gone," he said.


But I think even that does not mean there will be regime change if they just appoint another Supreme Leader. Yes, I am nervous my prediction of complete regime change will be wrong, but one good thing about this Parchin site is a consensus should build very quickly for regime change (and military action?) if the Iranians do not let the IAEA inspectors in, and of course if they do and if the Iranians have been naughty testing nuclear bomb detonators then the latest measuring instruments will detect as few as one or two atoms, so they will be found out to have been lying (yet again?). The suspicion is the Iranians have been grinding the surfaces of the contaminated vessels to hide the evidence and there have been liquids photographed in the last month flowing out of the building the IAEA is interested in. I believe the nuclear issue will help to build agreement to act against Iran, and then UCL could be a whole different creature. I still want Sandpiper to go ahead of course.

The long term reasons I think there are for regime change are the ones most people here are probably familiar with:
1. Iran is not immune to the trends in neighbouring countries. e.g. Lebanese TV has lots of great singers and belly dancers: all that is denied in Iran.
2. The regime is fighting nature trying to keep men and women apart.
3. The regime is fighting technology that favours free flow of info around the world.
4. There is a limit to the amount of torture and execution that can be carried out.
5. There should be plenty of hidden discontent in the country. It probably just needs some sort of catalyst to bring it out.