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🚨🇮🇱 🇮🇷 ATTACKING IRAN’S WATER COULD BACKFIRE HARD Former British Diplomat Alastair Crooke says hitting Iran’s water infrastructure makes little strategic sense because it invites retaliation against even more vulnerable targets across the Gulf. He says countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia depend far more heavily on desalination,... show more

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The US destroyed a water reservoir serving 20,000 people in a strike Iran described as a “calculated war crime.” Professor Marandi says Iran has so far refrained from retaliating against desalination plants in Gulf countries. But he warns that if the US escalates further, those facilities could become fair game. That would be a potentially catastrophic scenario for Gulf states that rely heavily on artificial freshwater supplies amid extreme summer heat. Watch the full interview on Sanchez Effect.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump threatened to unleash the “gates of hell” against Iran, then he backed away, which in Washington may have been seen as restraint. According to Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar, Tehran interpreted it very differently. They saw it as proof that Iran’s deterrence had worked, America’s military options were narrowing, and that the longer Iran holds out, the more leverage it gains. Pepe says that transformed Iran’s objectives. Tehran is no longer thinking only about surviving the war, lifting sanctions or securing control over the Strait of Hormuz. According to his sources, forcing the U.S to retreat from West Asia has now become a central strategic goal. Iran began this conflict trying to prevent America from imposing its will. Pepe believes it now sees an opportunity to dismantle the military system that allowed Washington to threaten it in the first place. And Tehran reportedly believes it has found the mechanism. He says Iran has replaced its previous proportional retaliation policy with a new warning: Strike one Iranian energy target, and Iran will strike ten targets across America’s regional network. The message to Gulf governments is brutal. If they help Trump attack Iran, their refineries, pipelines and export facilities will pay the price. Pepe says that threat is one reason regional leaders pushed Trump to stand down. Saudi Arabia, in particular, understands that another major escalation could devastate the infrastructure it depends on to export oil. For decades, American bases were supposed to protect Gulf allies from Iran, but now those bases are putting the countries hosting them at risk. Pepe Escobar

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🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 ISRAEL CAN’T FINISH THIS WAR WITHOUT THE U.S. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Ret.) says Israel lacks the capability to destroy Iran’s hardened underground targets on its own. That limitation could pull America even deeper into the conflict. Israel may be great at starting fights, but finishing one against a country as large and dug-in as Iran might require more U.S. muscle than Washington wants to admit. Karen Kwiatkowski

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Former Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh warned on CNN that Trump threatening Oman could backfire badly for the United States. Her argument was simple: If America starts attacking or alienating longtime Gulf allies like Oman, those countries may eventually decide cutting deals with Iran is safer than relying on Washington. That’s the deeper strategic fear here. Because America’s influence in the Middle East has never depended only on military power. It depends on whether allies believe the U.S. is stable, predictable, and worth aligning with long term. Once allies start questioning that… the entire regional balance starts shifting. And so does our Petro-Dollar dominance.

Former Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh warned on CNN that Trump threatening Oman could backfire badly for the United States. Her argument was simple: If America starts attacking or alienating longtime Gulf allies like Oman, those countries may eventually decide cutting deals with Iran is safer than relying on Washington. That’s the deeper strategic fear here. Because America’s influence in the Middle East has never depended only on military power. It depends on whether allies believe the U.S. is stable, predictable, and worth aligning with long term. Once allies start questioning that… the entire regional balance starts shifting. And so does our Petro-Dollar dominance.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The easy targets in Iran have already been hit, what's left is civilian infrastructure... And attacking it triggers Iranian strikes on desalination plants across the entire Gulf. Prof. David N. Gibbs says ground forces would be driven back into the Persian Gulf by an Iranian army that is still 70% intact, at enormous cost and zero strategic gain. Both escalation options fail. Walking away is the only rational move. But Trump won't do it. "If Trump were smart, he would simply get up and walk away. But he's unwilling to do that, so we're stuck."

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The easy targets in Iran have already been hit, what's left is civilian infrastructure... And attacking it triggers Iranian strikes on desalination plants across the entire Gulf. Prof. David N. Gibbs says ground forces would be driven back into the Persian Gulf by an Iranian army that is still 70% intact, at enormous cost and zero strategic gain. Both escalation options fail. Walking away is the only rational move. But Trump won't do it. "If Trump were smart, he would simply get up and walk away. But he's unwilling to do that, so we're stuck."

Mario Nawfal

31,478 views • 3 months ago

🇮🇷🇸🇦 A Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia could drag Riyadh directly into the war, which may be exactly what Iran wants to avoid. Fmr. U.S. Navy SEAL Matt Bracken argues the region’s alliances are far more tangled than they appear: “For the Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia and cut them off completely is forcing Saudi Arabia’s hand to enter this war in a way that Iran probably doesn’t want.” He points out that Iran has largely avoided hitting key Saudi infrastructure, including the Yanbu pipeline and Red Sea facilities, even though they would be relatively easy targets. Matt Bracken

🇮🇷🇸🇦 A Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia could drag Riyadh directly into the war, which may be exactly what Iran wants to avoid. Fmr. U.S. Navy SEAL Matt Bracken argues the region’s alliances are far more tangled than they appear: “For the Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia and cut them off completely is forcing Saudi Arabia’s hand to enter this war in a way that Iran probably doesn’t want.” He points out that Iran has largely avoided hitting key Saudi infrastructure, including the Yanbu pipeline and Red Sea facilities, even though they would be relatively easy targets. Matt Bracken

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