A number of TPM readers have been wanting to know: what’s up with the fact that the Iranian weapons on display in Sunday’s briefing have English markings on them? Isn’t that fishy?
No, says John Pike of globalsecurity.org. “If they had Farsi markings on them, how would (the Iranians) sell them internationally?” English, after all, is “the lingua franca of the international arms trade.”
In other words, there may be 99 problems with allegations of Iranian-directed attacks on U.S. forces, but English markings ain’t one.
