As most of the chronically disabled victims of persistent Lyme infection know, the Steere camp love to portray Lyme Borreliosis as a trivial, easily-detected, easily-cured disease.
The American biowarfaremen and EIS officers, have had, of course, total support from our Ministry of Defense (yes, the same MoD which, I am told by someone in a position to know, wants to have me murdered.)
Well, given the current state of high tension in the news regarding Iranian-western relations, maybe it’s time to revisit the strange case of Drs Karami, Sorouri-Zanjani, and O’Connell.
British Lyme patients will be very familiar with the name of Dr O’Connell, head of our Lyme reference lab up till a few years ago, when it was moved to Porton, our main biowarfare research centre.
They may be less familiar with the fact that O’Connell, who dished out false negatives like sweets, was a biowarfare expert (specialising in Q Fever).
They may be less familiar still with the fact that Dr O’Connell, while in charge of Lyme, worked very closely with Dr Sorouri – Zanjani from Iran in the 90s.
What does it matter?
Well, Dr Sorouri-Zanjani just happens to be an extremely close colleague of Dr Ali Karami, who, as I mentioned publicly years ago, was the Head of Iran’s Biowarfare research centre.
Of course the centre’s actual title portrayed it as devoted to non-proliferation, not manufacture, of WMD.
I think that’s probably as true as our own western biowarfare establishment’s claiming they only do work related to defense.
In other words, it’s complete rubbish, both when the Iranians say it, and when we (Western countries) say it.
After all – and biowarfare scientists themselves have been the first to admit this – nearly all modern biowar work is DUAL-PURPOSE.
In other words, the same research that could be used to search for ways to protect populations, can also be used to annihilate them.
So who is Ali Karami? Well, as Iran’s top bioweapons scientist, we could wonder which microbes he spent much of his career studying.
Was it the dreaded Bubonic Plague? Anthrax? The horrific (and tick-borne) tularaemia? The 1918 Flu virus?
Actually, Dr Karami spent much of his career studying Lyme Borreliosis (Lyme disease).
Now why would Iran’s top biowarfare man want to waste his career studying a trivial disease, easily cured with a short standard course of antibiotics?
I don’t know. Maybe Dr O’Connell could ask her colleague (and his), Dr Sorouri-Zanjani, who undoubtedly knows more about the strains and prevalence of virulent Lyme Borrelia here in England than any doctor or scientist outside of our own biowar apparatus, and perhaps more than some who are in it.
So if tomorrow, you hear on your news broadcast that we all need to go to war with Iran because Iran has biological weapons, don’t be surprised if you get a sense of deja vu.
In 1991 we all went to war because Iraq had WMD. This was not speculation. Saddam, a murderous dictator, really did have biological and chemical WMD.
We knew it was true because we in the West gave them to him. Much if not most of the WMD he had was supplied by companies in the USA, Britain, and other western countries.
How could our Defense Departments be so foolish as to allow WMD to be shipped to a murderous dictator? Well, in those days, he was a “good” murderous dictator.
Only when he turned against Kuwait and by extension, western oil interests, then we discovered he was actually a “bad” murderous dictator.
I’m so glad our Defense departments know what they are doing.
So if you live in Britain, and you want to know the true rate of Lyme-infected ticks in your area, don’t bother asking the Lyme lab at Porton Down.
Just ask Iran.
Oh, here’s one product of the collaboration between Britain’s former head of Lyme, and Dr Karami’s good friend.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302254012_Serodiagnosis_of_Lyme_Disease_in_the_UK
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302254012_Serodiagnosis_of_Lyme_Disease_in_the_UK
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