{"id":46854,"date":"2019-06-24T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46854"},"modified":"2019-06-24T06:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:40:25","slug":"iran-goes-for-maximum-counter-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46854","title":{"rendered":"Iran goes for \u201cmaximum counter-pressure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran goes for \u201cmaximum counter-pressure\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sooner or later the US \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on Iran would inevitably be met by \u201cmaximum counter-pressure\u201d. Sparks are ominously bound to fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past few days, intelligence circles across Eurasia had been prodding Tehran to consider a quite straightforward scenario. There would be no need to shut down the Strait of Hormuz if Quds Force commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the ultimate Pentagon b\u00eate noire, explained in detail, on global media, that Washington simply does not have the military capacity to keep the Strait open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I previously reported<\/a>, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

would destroy the American economy by detonating the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market; and that would collapse the world banking system, crushing the world\u2019s $80 trillion GDP and causing an unprecedented depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soleimani should also state bluntly that Iran may in fact shut down the Strait of Hormuz if the nation is prevented from exporting essential <\/strong>two million barrels of oil a day, mostly to Asia. Exports, which before illegal US sanctions and de facto blockade would normally reach 2.5 million barrels a day, now may be down to only 400,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soleimani\u2019s intervention would align with consistent signs already coming from the IRGC. The Persian Gulf is being described as an imminent \u201cshooting gallery.\u201d Brigadier General Hossein Salami stressed that Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles<\/a> are capable of hitting \u201ccarriers in the sea\u201d with pinpoint precision. The whole northern border of the Persian Gulf, on Iranian territory, is lined up with anti-ship missiles \u2013 as I confirmed<\/a> with IRGC-related sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll let you know when it\u2019s closed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, went\u00a0straight to the point<\/a>; \u201cIf the Islamic Republic of Iran were determined to prevent export of oil from the Persian Gulf, that determination would be realized in full and announced in public, in view of the power of the country and its Armed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iran goes for \u201cmaximum counter-pressure\u201d\u00a0 Sooner or later the US \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on Iran would inevitably be met by \u201cmaximum counter-pressure\u201d. Sparks are ominously bound to fly. For the past few days, intelligence circles across Eurasia had been prodding Tehran to consider a quite straightforward scenario. There would be no need to shut down the […]<\/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":[4076,26132,9311,8203,2662,827],"class_list":["post-46854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-quds-force","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-tehran","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46854","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=46854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46855,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46854\/revisions\/46855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}