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Dear Reader,
I have it on official authority — the present inflation is the hellsent handiwork of Iran.
Mr. Peter Navarro currently serves as the White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.
From whom:
- U.S. inflation has risen to its fastest pace in three years, and gas prices have been hit particularly hard. This is not Trump inflation. It is Iran terror inflation.
- Iran is using anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles, drones, fast attack boats, and mines to paralyze an oil trade that moves through one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints — the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iran is engaged in this maritime terrorism because President Trump has done what no president before him has had the courage to do — demand an end to Iran’s nuclear weapons development.
Can You Truly Blame Iran?
You may approve of the Iran conflict. You may disapprove of the Iran conflict.
You may believe it was necessary or you may believe it was not necessary.
Regardless, here is a question:
Would Iran have resorted to its deviltries — with their resulting “terror inflation” — had the United States and its Israeli co-belligerent not waylaid it first?
The answer is no. Here is another question:
Would the world’s oil presently transit the Hormuz Strait, unrestricted… had the United States and its Israeli co-belligerent left Iran unmolested?
The answer is yes. The oil would flow as freely as it flowed on Feb. 27.
Confusing the Aggressee With the Aggressor
You punch a fellow in the nose. Being of a slighter build, and lacking the oomph to confront you directly, he seeks retribution through alternate means.
He proceeds to thieve your automobile.
You then bellyache about your resulting immobility. You blame all your inconvenience on this dastardly fellow who denied you the means of transport.
Yet who “started it?”
You started it. Thus the claim that Iran bears responsibility for the present inflation confuses aggressee for aggressor.
Again: You may believe the conflict is a just conflict, even a necessary conflict. You may believe Iran constitutes a unique menace that must be scotched — even at substantial short-term expense.
Yet let us not delude ourselves. Let us look upon events with open and honest eyes.
Let us recognize that Iran did not initiate… but react.
Iran’s a Greater Nuclear Risk Now Than Before?
Meantime, Mr. Navarro cites the president’s determination to refuse Iran’s acquisition of atomic armaments.
I too am against Iran’s acquisition of atomic armaments. Yet has the conflict actually accelerated Iran’s acquisition of atomic armaments?
Bloomberg reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency has published a “restricted” document.
That document assesses that Iran presently represents a greater nuclear risk than prior to the conflict.
Meantime, rumors swirl that the Iranian president requested that Pakistani intermediaries convey a message to American officials.
What were its contents?
That if the United States escalated the conflict, Iran would detonate a nuclear device — on its own soil, to be clear — to demonstrate its nuclear capability.
That is, Iran has already acquired atomic arms.
A bluff? A gust of hot air with no grounding in fact?
Perhaps it is. And the Trump administration denies that the message exists.
My spies have confirmed that the rumors exist. Not that they are necessarily valid, but that they exist.
Yet could they be accurate?
Iran May Be Able to Build 20 Nuclear Bombs
Dr. Theodore Postol is an atomic arms authority who professes at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He claims that Iran presently possesses the means and expertise to construct up to 20 Hiroshima-style nuclear devices.
Further, that Iran would not require years or possibly even months to fabricate them… but weeks:
- Iran has the technology and expertise to build between 10 and 20 atomic bombs quickly. We’re talking weeks, maybe it takes months because some of the equipment has to be brought together. We don’t know. But we’re not talking years by any means…
- The weapon that you would build would have dimensions and a weight that could easily be flown on an existing tested long-range missile that has typically been used to deliver conventional explosives to Israel.
More:
- The gas centrifuges that are key to the technology that Iran needs to build atomic weapons are likely to be more numerous and more capable than people have been believing…
- So anyone who’s telling you that the Iranians can’t do this, and who knows anything about the technology they’ve already demonstrated, is smoking banana peels. I don’t know where they get this idea from…
- [Iran] has the ability to build nuclear weapons, and those nuclear weapons would be very reliable, and they don’t necessarily need to test them.
The Great Irony of It All
The conflict commenced on Feb. 28.
If Iran’s leadership ordered the clandestine construction of atomic devices shortly thereafter, I hazard that several may be completed or nearly completed — based upon Dr. Postol’s weeks or months timeframe.
Of course, I do not know. Yet if Iran has in fact constructed atomic devices, there you will find high irony.
The president’s declared purpose of the conflict was to prevent Iran’s acquisition of atomic arms.
Iran possessed none prior to hostilities. The United States intelligence agencies concluded, in fact, that Iran had abandoned its active nuclear program in 2003.
Yet the conflict may have yielded the very outcome it was intended to forestall — Iran’s acquisition of atomic arms.
“War is the unfolding of miscalculations,” argued American historian Barbara Tuchman.
This war, perhaps, offers no exception.
Regards,
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
