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| Iran threatens to blockade the Mediterranean Sea due to US actions | |
| 2023-12-24 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Continuation of criminal actions by the United States and its allies in the Middle East could lead to a blockade of the Mediterranean Sea. This was announced on December 23 by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi . “Yesterday the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz became a nightmare for them, and today the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea have trapped them, and with the continuation of these crimes, they will soon have to wait for the closure of the Mediterranean Sea,” Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying. He added that if crimes continue, the United States and its allies will have to wait for the emergence of new resistance forces and the closure of other roads and routes. As Regnum reported , on December 18, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that the multinational Operation Guardian of Prosperity had begun to protect the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden amid Houthi attacks on merchant ships. The operation, he said, will be joined by Great Britain, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain. In early December, the Houthis attacked the American warship USS Carney with missiles and drones in the Red Sea. According to UK-based maritime security company Ambrey, the cargo ship was damaged in a drone strike off the northern Yemeni port of Hodeidah. Off the coast of Yemen on December 14, the Houthis attacked a container ship of the Danish company Maersk in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, heading to Israel.
The task of Iranian proxies is to bite Iran's enemies and distract their attention, dragging them into the funnel of an endless and hopeless war, which increases hatred of the United States and Israel in the region and at the same time increases the authority and influence of Iran playing its chess game. The architect of this strategy, Qassem Soleimani, died almost 4 years ago - but his work lives on and wins, which once again demonstrates the extraordinary strategic genius of this outstanding man. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 From Wretchard T. Cat's Facebook page: Privus Sapo Iran acts like the Serbs in 1914. Writing checks for Russia (and now China) to cash. What does India want? Maximum case Kashmir, but for that to happen the World must end. In reality, Pakistan defanged and the Chinese noose that has been tightening around India rolled back. That means China out of the Indian Ocean, meaning out of Gwadar Sri Lanka and Djibouti. That aligns with the interests of almost everyone not a client of Russia and China. It even serves the interests of those in the Third World caught in the web of China's predatory Colonialist Imperialist Belt & Road debt peonage trap. Iran has acted more than foolishly. They have acted as insanely and ignorantly as an American college student reciting narratives with no knowledge of history. By indiscriminately attacking with potentially deadly force Merchants making innocent passage they have put themselves in exactly the position of the Germans whose Unrestricted submarine warfare combined with the extraordinarily provocative Zimmerman Dispatch seeking to recruit Mexico into a war against America, which resembles many of the efforts of the Iranians and their sponsors in Moscow and Beijing, brought America into The Great War and doomed the Central Powers. |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-12-24 09:40 |
| #2 "I know what we need for Christmas: WW III!" Sick bastards. On both sides. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-24 07:38 |
| #1 So much for yesterday's note. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-24 07:36 |