Iran will completely shut the strategic Strait of Hormuz if Trump executes threats to target Iranian energy facilities, the country’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Sunday.
Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48-hours, suggesting a significant escalation barely a day after he talked about “winding down” the war, now in its fourth week.
In their Sunday statement Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also said companies with U.S. shares will be ‘completely destroyed’, if Iranian energy facilities were targeted by Washington and energy facilities in countries that host U.S. bases will be ‘lawful’ targets.
Just like the taliban, they aren’t motivated by money, that is insightful. They believe in something. Which means none of what the US can do will work on them, just as it didn’t with the taliban.
Worked on the Houthis though. Iran might be a tougher nut but they won’t sacrifice everything just to keep the Strait closed
Then again, keeping power over the Strait is one of the most valuable pieces they still have on the board
Raising oil prices is the ONLY card Iran has to play.
Closing the straight is multifaceted, but yeah, hurting the global economy is pretty much their only strategy due to the asymmetric nature of this war.
but as far as cards go, it is the ace of spades.
Oil AND gas.
Which in turn will propagate to massive inflation in the West and possibly even problems with food production.
Further they can fuck up the economy of the Gulf states which are allies of America to such a point that they end up in a death spiral from which they can’t recover.
Idk, a bomb vest in Disneyland would be an interesting maneuver
Mossad would do everything possible to help some mentally ill do that. Talk is they are hard at doing such.
Just pointing out there’s less technical options
What worked with Houthis? they kinda paused because genocide was kinda paused, their demands were met and they made it clear they are ready to join again to fight Epstein coalition.
Ah yes, the Houthis paused because their demands were met
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Whatever makes you feel good :)
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