Help interpret a strange traceroute?

Randy amps at djlab.com
Mon Oct 31 19:33:19 UTC 2016 

Happy monday all!

Any idea how a traceroute (into my network) could end up this fubar'd?   
Discovered this wierd routing while investigating horrendously slow 
speeds (albeit no packet loss) to a particular ISP abroad.

It's like - coming into us - the packets are taking every available 
path, simultaniously.   Tracing back to him looks perfectly normal.

Thank you in advance for any comments on or off list.

Him to us:
traceroute to mirror.ash.fastserv.com (208.85.240.29), 64 hops max, 52 
byte packets
  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  1.552 ms  1.522 ms  1.261 ms
  2  br1.l.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.12)  17.750 ms  18.932 ms  18.811 ms
  3  172.16.5.65 (172.16.5.65)  18.505 ms  20.044 ms  18.414 ms
  4  int.gr1.s.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.125)  19.096 ms  18.447 ms  18.752 ms
  5  int.gr1.l.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.117)  18.454 ms  18.768 ms  103.441 ms
  6  10.21.252.166 (10.21.252.166)  66.308 ms  18.728 ms  18.867 ms
  7  * * *
  8  185.100.209.139 (185.100.209.139)  162.126 ms
     ae5.istanbul1.ist.seabone.net (93.186.132.212)  210.124 ms  126.208 
ms
  9  et7-1-0.franco71.fra.seabone.net (195.22.214.131)  102.694 ms
     if-ae-9-3.tcore1.pvu-paris.as6453.net (195.219.87.14)  189.955 ms
     185.100.209.197 (185.100.209.197)  218.539 ms
10  te0-3-0-4.rcr21.b023101-0.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (149.14.144.89)  
201.223 ms  215.996 ms
     185.100.209.1 (185.100.209.1)  164.381 ms
11  if-ae-2-2.tcore2.av2-amsterdam.as6453.net (195.219.194.6)  199.161 
ms
     be2950.ccr22.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.109)  216.648 ms
     if-ae-3-6.tcore1.l78-london.as6453.net (80.231.130.85)  271.750 ms
12  if-ae-4-2.thar1.njy-newark.as6453.net (80.231.130.34)  183.984 ms *
     be2814.ccr42.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.0.141)  109.045 ms
13  if-ae-1-3.thar2.njy-newark.as6453.net (216.6.57.2)  207.371 ms
     be2870.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.58.173)  186.804 ms
     be12488.ccr42.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.51.41)  190.236 ms
14  if-ae-14-14.tcore2.nto-new-york.as6453.net (66.198.111.126)  203.156 
ms
     if-ae-9-2.tcore1.n75-new-york.as6453.net (63.243.128.122)  273.177 
ms
     be2807.ccr42.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.110)  235.632 ms
15  66.110.96.134 (66.110.96.134)  182.695 ms
     be2806.ccr41.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.106)  278.593 ms  
240.075 ms
16  66.110.96.142 (66.110.96.142)  245.454 ms
     be3084.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.66)  191.973 ms
     be3083.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.54)  240.740 ms
17  te0-0-0-0.nr13.b023801-0.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.24.36.18)  
257.027 ms
     be3083.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.54)  236.617 ms
     hu-1-3-0-2-cr02.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.97)  221.186 
ms
18  be-10102-cr02.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.161)  194.766 
ms  250.493 ms
     be-10203-cr01.newark.nj.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.185)  191.052 ms
19  be-10102-cr02.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.161)  197.694 
ms
     te0-0-2-0.nr11.b023801-0.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.24.36.2)  
266.914 ms  235.444 ms
20  te0-0-2-3.nr11.b023801-0.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.24.36.6)  
255.756 ms
     38.88.249.210 (38.88.249.210)  216.677 ms
     te0-0-2-0.nr11.b023801-0.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.24.36.2)  
211.364 ms
21  208.85.240.29 (208.85.240.29)  274.692 ms  212.896 ms
     ash01-mls-dc-core-a.latisys.net (67.217.175.37)  208.976 ms

And back to him:
traceroute to 46.224.145.65 (46.224.145.65), 30 hops max, 60 byte 
packets
  1  104.153.64.146 (104.153.64.146)  22.067 ms  22.049 ms *
  2  xe-3-1-1.er1.iad10.us.above.net (208.185.24.1)  0.398 ms  0.392 ms  
0.420 ms
  3  zayo-tata.iad10.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.13.170)  0.708 ms  0.580 ms  
0.623 ms
  4  if-ae-11-2.thar2.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (216.6.87.138)  92.900 ms 
if-ae-11-3.thar2.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (216.6.87.242)  92.802 ms 
if-ae-11-4.thar2.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (216.6.87.169)  97.177 ms
  5  if-ae-1-3.thar1.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (216.6.57.1)  92.940 ms  
93.008 ms  89.431 ms
  6  if-ae-8-2.tcore1.LDN-London.as6453.net (66.198.70.174)  97.315 ms  
96.049 ms  95.855 ms
  7  if-ae-17-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net (80.231.130.129)  98.074 ms 
if-ae-3-6.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net (80.231.130.86)  92.733 ms  92.898 
ms
  8  if-ae-2-2.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net (80.231.154.17)  93.636 ms 
if-ae-3-6.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net (80.231.130.86)  97.917 ms  98.363 
ms
  9  if-ae-2-2.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net (80.231.154.17)  100.909 ms 
if-ae-9-3.tcore2.FNM-Frankfurt.as6453.net (195.219.87.13)  92.055 ms  
93.173 ms
10  195.219.87.46 (195.219.87.46)  208.894 ms  209.042 ms 
if-ae-9-2.tcore2.FNM-Frankfurt.as6453.net (195.219.87.9)  94.718 ms
11  * 195.219.87.46 (195.219.87.46)  209.640 ms int.gr1.s.hiweb.ir 
(46.224.0.118)  202.201 ms
12  int.cr1.s.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.126)  205.150 ms * *
13  * * *
14  int.gr1.s.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.118)  201.803 ms  201.799 ms 
int.cr1.s.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.126)  201.819 ms
15  int.cr1.s.hiweb.ir (46.224.0.126)  204.952 ms  198.969 ms *
16  46.224.145.65 (46.224.145.65)  210.507 ms  211.144 ms  206.998 ms

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