The Stig comments

There is an amazing lack of understanding of what TPP is really about. It's not about making things better for Japan, in particular with regard to imported foods & seeds. Farmers would effectively be forced to grow GMO foods, whose foreign corporations would be protected by new Intl. laws. If you know what's happening in this context in the US and understand the health implications, it's the last thing anybody would be supportive or defensive about. It's alsoone reason why JA (Japan Agriculture) is so vehemently against it. Not only would crops, etc. from abroad find their ways into Japan, but the Japanese farmers are vehemently against growing GMO foods. Why? Because they understand that once these seeds are propagated there is no turning back, ever. There are many other clauses which will further take away power from the Japanese government and give it to foreign corporations seeking to exploit the Japanese market. Only a corrupt government would accept / aim to join TPP and that's what Abe's regime is. We can only hope JA's powerful association of voters continues to strongly resist and at least create a stalemate. The jewel in the crown of TPP would be the inclusion of Japan - which is why the US continues to wait for Japan to join. It's NOT in Japan or it's people's interests.

It's the US sanctions that are wrong, not processing banking transactions for Iran. Fact is Iran does not have Nuclear arms (As confirmed by the IAEA several times over the years), just as Iraq turned out not to have any weapons of mass distruction - but that didn't stop Bush from lying to congress and taking the US & it's allies to war on false pretences. Don'r believe the propoganda against Iran.