{"id":45644,"date":"2019-04-25T09:49:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45644"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:49:53","slug":"iran-warns-false-flag-accident-could-lure-trump-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45644","title":{"rendered":"Iran Warns False Flag &#8220;Accident&#8221; Could &#8220;Lure&#8221; Trump Into War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-24\/irans-fm-vows-revolutionary-guards-defend-hormuz-strait-if-us-seals-it\">Iran Warns False Flag &#8220;Accident&#8221; Could &#8220;Lure&#8221; Trump Into War<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Following US declarations that Washington and its allies intend to take Iranian crude exports down to &#8220;zero&#8221; by cancelling waivers previously granted to eight nations, tensions are now soaring over&nbsp;the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) attempting to lay down the law amid&nbsp;<strong>fears the US Navy could move to block Iran&#8217;s access<\/strong>, given the IRGC&#8217;s new terror designation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday Iranian Foreign Minister&nbsp;Mohammad Javad Zarif said if the US intends to pass through the Persian Gulf&#8217;s vital choke point&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>the waterway&#8217;s narrowest strait routinely patrolled by Iran&#8217;s military&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>it must dialogue with&nbsp;those who defend it&#8221;<\/strong>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/457453-us-cooperate-iran-hormuz-strait\/\">Sharif&#8217;s words<\/a>were essentially a provocative declaration that the US military must ask Tehran&#8217;s &#8220;permission&#8221; to enter the strait. However, he elsewhere explained&nbsp;that<strong>&nbsp;he doesn&#8217;t believe that President Trump wants war with Iran<\/strong>, but that he could be &#8220;lured into one&#8221; by his more hawkish advisers.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/iran%20hormuz1.jpg?itok=_LxHIxBQ\"><em>Image via Mehr News Agency<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Iran&#8217;s foreign minister on Wednesday warned the United States of unspecified&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;consequences&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;if it tried to&nbsp;<strong>seal off to Tehran the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>, the strategic passage into the oil-rich Gulf.&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/iran-s-foreign-minister-warns-us-over-strait-of-hormuz-11475832\">Channel News Asia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he wants war,\u201d Zarif said in an interview at the Iranian mission to the UN in New York, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-usa-exclusive\/exclusive-irans-zarif-believes-trump-does-not-want-war-but-could-be-lured-into-conflict-idUSKCN1S02VK\">Reuters<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t exclude him being basically lured into one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who have designed the policies that are being pursued do not simply want a negotiated solution. But let me make it clear that Iran is not seeking confrontation, but will not escape defending itself,\u201d Zarif&nbsp;said further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian foreign minister also interestingly suggested the\u00a0possibility that American operatives or their allies could try\u00a0<strong>\u201cto plot an accident\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to create\u00a0a broader crisis, in perhaps a continued cryptic reference to tensions in the Persian Gulf over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Warns False Flag &#8220;Accident&#8221; Could &#8220;Lure&#8221; Trump Into War Following US declarations that Washington and its allies intend to take Iranian crude exports down to &#8220;zero&#8221; by cancelling waivers previously granted to eight nations, tensions are now soaring over&nbsp;the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) attempting to lay down the law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,17483,12324,25708,1129,9311],"class_list":["post-45644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-iranian-revolutionary-guard","tag-irgc","tag-javad-zarif","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45645,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644\/revisions\/45645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}