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Dear Reader,
Two weeks…
Yesterday the president evidently issued Iran a two week stay.
Mr. Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt, quoting him:
- Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future. I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
It is my sincere wish that the feuding parties come to terms.
Let the warring birds fold the wing, I say.
Otherwise I fear Pandora’s notorious Box may go flinging open. And its dreadful contents will come issuing out.
Hmmm…
Yet note the president’s phrasing — “within the next two weeks.”
This very day falls within the two-week stretch. As does the next day and the day following that one… clear through to day 14.
What if the president decides tomorrow? And what if that decision is to shoot?
Regardless: I hazard that any nuclear gadgetry in Iran’s deep Fordow facility is presently undergoing transport elsewhere.
If a thief threatened to raid your home in two week’s time… would you not relocate the valuables?
If Iranian security personnel do not relocate the nuclear apparatus, I can only conclude they do not fear for its safety.
They will have concluded that the deep underground installation could withstand the blow.
President Trump himself wonders, evidently, if the blow would work the requisite damage.
If he is not confident the 15-ton “bunker busters” can burrow deep enough, he will beg off.
He will not absorb the risks of expanded conflict absent the promise of full reward.
Iran’s Options
What — precisely — are the risks?
Firstly, Iran may proceed with economic retaliation. What if Iran locks up the Strait of Hormuz?
Here is a certain Behnam Saeedi, member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee:
- Iran has numerous options to respond to its enemies. Closing the Strait of Hormuz is one of the potential options.
Adds senior Iranian lawmaker Ali Yazdikhah:
- If the United States officially and operationally enters the war in support of the Zionists (Israel), it is the legitimate right of Iran in view of pressuring the U.S. and Western countries to disrupt their oil trade’s ease of transit.
Any extended closure of the critical passageway could send oil skyshooting to $120 the barrel.
Some believe $150 the barrel.
Is President Trump prepared for it? Are you prepared for it?
Iran Sinks U.S. Fleet
“They could never pull it off,” you thunder — “The U.S. Navy would make SURE of that. We’d wipe them out.”
Perhaps you are correct. Yet perhaps you are incorrect.
In 2002 a war simulation pitted a carrier strike group of the United States Navy — including an amphibious contingent of Marines — against Iranian forces.
The Iranian forces won. How?
They refused to play the game by the American rules.
They employed pre-modern communications to evade electronic surveillance.
Motorcycles relayed orders to the troops. Light signals directed airplanes to take off, not radios.
The planes, once aloft, observed radio silence to further reduce their electronic signatures.
Swarms of anti-ship missiles came zinging from all points — from land, from commercial vessels at sea, from low-flying planes that scooted in beneath radar.
As the missiles were unloading their lethal cargoes, an armada of small Iranian boats barreled toward the reeling American ships. All laden with explosives.
19 United States vessils were on the bottom once the battlesmoke cleared.
Iran’s Getting Ready
I do not predict an actual battle would transpire in the simulated fashion — I am confident the exercise taught the United States Navy lessons.
Yet Iran may hold additional tricks up its shirtsleeve. I hazard the Navy would find them unamusing.
It is tellingly, perhaps, that Iran is shipping out oil at a furious pace in anticipation of closure.
Reports Zero Hedge:
- Iran is racing to get its oil out into the world before any possible escalation makes this impossible… Oil is gushing out of the nation’s ports and onto ocean-tankers, ensuring revenues would continue, at least for a while, if shipments are disrupted.
Meantime, in event of conflict Iran would likely lob multiple missiles into regional United States military installations.
My agents believe the majority of them would breach the air defenses.
All the while, Iran holds strings connected to many regional puppets.
Some label these puppets proxies. Others label them terrorists.
And they are capable of mischief should Iran put them up to it.
Playing With Fireworks
Once the fireworks are set off, who can say when the show will end? Will it contain a thrilling finale?
Imagine the whizbang. Imagine the “oohs” and “ahs.”
July 4th is but two weeks distant.
It coincides nearly perfectly with the closing of the president’s two-week apparent window.
Will he use the occasion to conduct a fireworks display like no other?
I do not know.
I would merely advise the president that toying with fireworks is hazardous.
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
