I read in Israeli media that another high-ranking member of the Iran’s Quds Force is said to have died: AsgharPashapour, a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards’extraterritorial force, was killed Sunday in battle with Syrianopposition forces in Aleppo, the reports said. Somehow this name reminded me of North Korea - but why? Then I remembered: APA, the Asian Parliamentary Assembly! The APA Tenth Plenary Session took place in Istanbul from November 20 to 25, 2017. Numerous interesting Iranians were present, including Pashapour. Due to its members , APA is an extremely important institution anyway, as shown by the list of participating countries in 2017: And as for North Korea: They were there with some of their people: In my opinion, it is these meetings and gatherings that are important for the exchange of information and agreements between the countries that the Western Alliance is watching for good reasons. The problem is tha...
"Information at best will always be in some part fragmentary, obsolete, and ambiguous." (Armstrong, Willis C. (et al.): The Hazards of Single-Outcome Forecasting, in: Westerfield Bradford, H. (Ed.), Inside CIA's private world, Yale 1995, p. 242)