We've been wondering what action(s) Iran would take in retribution for our bombing their nuke sites all to blazes. So far today there are a couple of things to report.
The first is that they have taken preliminary steps to close the Straits of Hormuz as the New York Post reports.
Iran’s parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping channel through which around 20% of the world’s daily oil flows.
The move, which could block $1 billion in oil shipments per day, is likely to send oil prices soaring. It will come into effect pending a final decision by Iran’s Supreme Council. The Supreme Council’s decision must be made by tonight, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV.
The second was something reported by Zero Hedge.
Russia's former president and current deputy chairman of the country's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev [noted:] A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.
I believe the first is much more likely than the second. Loaned nukes would be a game-changer, and could start a nuclear war which almost nobody wants any part of.
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Nineteen years ago, Henry Kissinger wrote of Iran as follows.
A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation — whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation.
I believe we know what they decided, as this piece in The Atlantic points out about missile attacks on Israel:
The strikes had been carried out not by Iran’s military but by a militia, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization whose name doesn’t even include Iran: the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
This is not some bureaucratic “fun fact.” Rather, it illustrates a fundamental truth about Iran: the duality of its institutions, many of which are explicitly defined to be autonomous of both the nation and the state.
This duality is Iran's red clown nose, they leave it off and act as "the voice of Allah," then pop it on and pretend to be a normal country. Are we supposed to take them at their word both times? Balderdash and poppycock. They are a bloodthirsty religious movement, when it suits them wearing as camouflage the hide of the nation they killed when they deposed the Shah.
