David Sawyer

You announce this like a triumph, when it is really a ransom note from a failed, defeated, murderous regime trying to squeeze coins out of a shipping lane because it has nothing left to offer the world but threats. This is not power. This is desperation with a flag. A regime that butchered its own people, looted its own country, wrecked its own currency, and turned faith into a torture warrant is now demanding tolls in rials — the financial corpse of its own misrule. “No more dollars. No more yuan.” Translation: no more leverage. Just a broken theocracy standing beside the Strait of Hormuz with empty pockets, blood on its hands, and a currency the world avoids like a contaminated rag. You are not dedollarizing anything. You are begging at gunpoint. You are not reshaping the global order. You are monetizing a chokepoint because your regime has failed at everything else: prosperity, legitimacy, governance, morality, even basic dignity. You did not defeat America. You did not humble China. You did not terrify the world. You cornered yourself, bankrupted your people, murdered your critics, and then called the resulting wreckage “resistance.” This is not a major policy shift. It is a defeated regime rattling a tin cup in the Strait of Hormuz, demanding payment in the ashes of the country it destroyed.