Loading ...The crucial fact is that Tehran rejects a new negotiation with the White House “under any circumstances,” as expressed by Hossein Dehghan, the top military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
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If a war erupts in the Persian Gulf, the oil prices will go sky-high regardless of the supposed safety assurances the U.S. can promise. Fact is Iran has the ability to wage a war of attrition, Iran can and will blow-up tankers in the Gulf and once they start going up in the smoke, there is no stopping that downward spiral.
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Dehghan once again made it very clear that in case of any sort of military adventure, every single base of the U.S. Empire of Bases across Southwest Asia will be targeted.
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This neatly ties in with Iran’s by now consolidated new rules of engagement, duly detailed by correspondent Elijah Magnier. We are well into “an-eye-for-an-eye” territory.
Iran has the kinetic capability to close off the straight of Hormuz via its vast array of coastal and inland Missile batteries (most of which are not known to CENTCOM as of yet), large submarine force and large navy which can in quick order, lay mines in the straight. Furthermore, Iran employs a very old but smart strategy containing the use of decoys, multiple redundant missile bases, underground missile factories (with earth moving equipment inside to dig exit holes out of incase of cave-ins due to bombings). Iran has shown the capability to precisely hit targets far-away with great accuracy using mobile weapons platforms that are intrinsically hard to retaliate against. Once Iran fires a highly deadly salvo of Khalijeh-Fars missiles or Fateh-313 missiles, or Dezful, or Fateh-Mobin. Those trucks are long-gone from their original firing place. This same idea goes for Iran’s very impressive AD network.
There is another layer to this that must be stated and it’s sad that many people seem to just gloss over this reality. If a war erupts in the Persian Gulf, the oil prices will go sky-high regardless of the supposed safety assurances the U.S. can promise. Fact is Iran has the ability to wage a war of attrition, Iran can and will blow-up tankers in the Gulf and once they start going up in the smoke, there is no stopping that downward spiral.
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