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Trump Threatens Spain Trade Over Iran Airbase Denial

Trump Threatens Spain Trade Over Iran Airbase Denial
OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Trump & Iran; And A Flashback To WMDs In Iraq And Sobhraj Saga | Farrukh Dhondy · deccanchronicle.com

The leader of the United States wants to attack the country of Iran, and he asked Spain if American planes could use Spanish airports to do that.

Spain said no.

The American leader got angry and said he might stop buying things from Spain.

Spain's leader reminded everyone of something that happened before.

Many years ago, America and Britain attacked Iraq because they said Iraq had secret dangerous weapons.

After the war, those weapons were never found.

A writer then tells a story about a famous criminal who claimed to have a special ingredient that could start a nuclear bomb.

The criminal said he tried to sell it to some Arab men who might have been from Iraq, but nobody ever proved it.

He went to a city called Kathmandu and was arrested for old crimes, so the mystery was never solved.

Key facts

Key leaders
Donald Trump; Pedro Sanchez; Boris Johnson
Disputed air bases
Moron and Ratafor, Spain
US threat
Cut off trade with Spain
Iraq War
Began March 2003; no chemical, biological or nuclear WMD found
Red Mercury
Purported Russian nuclear weapons trigger made from Antimony
Sobhraj's trip
Bahrain, 2002, to sell Red Mercury
Daily Telegraph offer
£15,000 for evidence; Sobhraj demanded more
Sobhraj's fate
Jailed for murder in Kathmandu, Nepal

Quotes

Farrukh Dhondy

Author of the article

“I said it was none of my business and it was up to him and Sobhraj.”
deccanchronicle.com

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