Iranian public television: Iran might occupy Bahrian and the UAE if the US sends ground troups in to Iran.
Source: https://x.com/DionisCenusa/status/2036820755447451924
A journalist from Press TV posted the following:
Sayyed Khamenei outlined three concrete demands, each with a defined timeline: a rapid U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle East, a full rollback of sanctions within 60 days, and long-term financial compensation for economic damages.
Then came the ultimatum. Fail to comply, and Iran escalates, economically, militarily, and potentially nuclearly. Not hypothetically, but operationally: closing the Strait of Hormuz, formalizing defense ties with Russia and China, and moving from ambiguity to declared nuclear deterrence.
What’s notably absent here, is de-dollarisation of the oil trade, which is what would be necessary to end the US status as Global hegemon. Are we deluding ourselves here that this is one of the Iranian objectives, because it’s what we 'd like to see ourselves?
Edit: language-error, non-native speaker
Doesn’t sound good to me. They are freely giving up part of their leverage (rising oil prices).
Might be a response to Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s power plants if they don’t open the Strait of Hormuz in 48 hours, but even if that’s the case, it indicates fear of this threat, which the American regime will interpret as weakness.
this administration doesn’t really give the impression that this was the plan at all.
They are expendable scapegoats when things go wrong. The permanent leadership in the pentagon, the CIA etc. have their long-term planning regardless of who’s the figurehead.
I still think you’re giving this administration too much credit. The way I see it, this Iran attack was Trump thinking he could do what no president had done before
Withing the permanent bureaucracy of the US government, the pentagon, the intelligence services etc. there has been the plan to invade Iran for decades. Trump is just the figurehead on the news today. It’s not that he’s not important at all, but there are other actors steering this ship as well.
Have you ever seen the clip of US general Wesley Clark about their long term planning with regards to regime change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkNAQIuGZY
I’m not saying yes or no about this particular investment, but in general I’d say that it’s impossible to do better than the stock market in general. You or me is not going to be making better judgements than JP Morgan Chase or Deutsche Bank who have entire teams dedicated to any niche withing any market of financial products on the world.
If you’re investing, for that reason, I’d always recommend some sort of product which has a value which is the weighted average of thousends of financial products (like an ETF/tracker), make sure it’s one which actually does that, and isn’t just 25% Tesla for example.
Making bets on this or that industry or stock is a quick way to lose all your money.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a former City of Londen trader saying the exact same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ohZ74hdeI
it just because they want Iran to suffer. Obviously it is also about weakening Iran’s position in the Middle East and depriving China of an ally in the region (and their oil) but that seems to be the secondary objective here, the primary objective just seems to be to kill Iranians
I think you’re underestimating the strategic goals of the American Deep State. Have you ever seen the clip of US general Wesley Clark about their long term planning with regards to regime change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkNAQIuGZY
They gain less than the green party and the social democrats lose. Any idea why that is? (Might also be statistically insignificant.) (I also don’ want to be too negative, as there remains a left majority.)
it’s also worth noting that the Dutch just admonished Israel and have announced their joining the South African ICJ case.
That’s not what happened. Earlier in the thread, I made this comment:
Iceland and the Netherlands have filed declarations to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case
Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, Chile, the Maldives, Bolivia, Ireland, Cuba, Belize, Brazil, the Comoros, Belgium and Paraguay have already joined the case.
“Intervening in a case” and “joining a case” aren’t the same thing. If you join a case, you support one of the parties in the case. Belgium, Brazil, Ireland and Spain support South-Africa. Paraguay supports Israel. What the Netherlands and Iceland are doing is something else, they are neutral in the courtcase. Dutch media reports the following:
In a so-called ‘statement of intervention’, the Netherlands outlines the circumstances under which Israeli violence in Gaza could be classified as genocide. In doing so, it does not take sides for or against Israel.
The Netherlands is taking this step because it “wishes to contribute to a consistent interpretation of the Genocide Convention”, says a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (…) According to the spokesperson, this does not mean that the Netherlands has ‘aligned itself’ with South Africa. (…) A statement of intervention should be seen as an ‘announcement of arguments’, says genocide researcher Iva Vukusic of Utrecht University in a telephone interview. ‘With this statement, the Netherlands is making clear how it believes the 1948 Genocide Convention should be interpreted.”
I’m personally afraid that the Netherlands, which historically always had one of the most pro-Israeli governments in the EU, will use their “neutral” role to do the judicial equivalent of concern trolling to try to hinder the South-African case.
Iceland and the Netherlands have filed declarations to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case
Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, Chile, the Maldives, Bolivia, Ireland, Cuba, Belize, Brazil, the Comoros, Belgium and Paraguay have already joined the case.
“Intervening in a case” and “joining a case” aren’t the same thing. If you join a case, you support one of the parties in the case. Belgium, Brazil, Ireland and Spain support South-Africa. Paraguay supports Israel. What the Netherlands and Iceland are doing is something else, they are neutral in the courtcase. Dutch media reports the following:
In a so-called ‘statement of intervention’, the Netherlands outlines the circumstances under which Israeli violence in Gaza could be classified as genocide. In doing so, it does not take sides for or against Israel.
The Netherlands is taking this step because it “wishes to contribute to a consistent interpretation of the Genocide Convention”, says a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (…) According to the spokesperson, this does not mean that the Netherlands has ‘aligned itself’ with South Africa. (…) A statement of intervention should be seen as an ‘announcement of arguments’, says genocide researcher Iva Vukusic of Utrecht University in a telephone interview. ‘With this statement, the Netherlands is making clear how it believes the 1948 Genocide Convention should be interpreted.”
I’m personally afraid that the Netherlands, which historically always had one of the most pro-Israeli governments in the EU, will use their “neutral” role to do the judicial equivalent of concern trolling to try to hinder the South-African case.
About 35% of the oil that normally transits the Strait of Hormuz is still reaching export markets, Bloomberg’s Javier Blas reports. Saudi Arabia’s move to ramp up exports in the Red Sea will cause that number to jump to ~ 63% “in the next couple of days.”
How does this planespotting-website work? Imagine I’d like to search for all airplanes from let’s say the Austrian military which were near Iran in the last week, does the site allow that type of searches?
Doesn’t look like a large group of people, so this doesn’t have to mean much with regard to how Cubans are currently feeling about their governement. The mainstream Western newspapers which I’ve read about this subject all quoted random people on the street saying stuff like “Yeah this sucks, and I certainly have my critiques on the Cuban governement, but why does America have to do this to us?”
Why are the none-Shia’s in Lebanon like that?
Great comment, I only disagree with your take that Europe won’t be rearming because the means of production to do that currently aren’t there. Europe is spending enormous amounts of money on the military the comming years (5% of GDP). All Western-European countries are destroying there welfare states to be able to do this (and the political resentment against this will go to ultra-right parties who’re also in favor of this), so those means of production are going to be built.
But can Iran keep it closed? Or can the US navy reopen it?
They’ll have a lot more difficulty rebuilding a pipeline or refinery once it’s destroyed.
Interesting in that regard: they seem to be also targeting the leadership of the Iranian Green Movement (large protest movement during Ahmedinijad’s presidency).
Tariq Ali reports that the US-Israeli attacks on Iran are deliberatly targeting socialists, as to prevent them from being an uncontrolled opposition force if the Iranian regime were to fall.
Edit: Interesting in that regard: they seem to be also targeting the leadership of the Iranian Green Movement (large protest movement during Ahmedinijad’s presidency).
The people behind this company used to lead the Israeli nuclear programme.