Posted on 01/19/2023 4:16:59 AM PST by bert
Iran’s pro-regime media on Wednesday said that the country’s missiles and drones now have the “strategic straits” of the region in their crosshairs. The article in Iran’s Tasnim, which reflects the IRGC’s way of thinking about the region, says that Iran can now threaten Bab el-Mandeb off Yemen, the Straits of Hormuz between Iran and the Gulf and even the Suez Canal. The threat to the Mandeb and Hormuz area was well known in the past, but Iran now appears to have added Suez to its list of strategic choke-points for world trade that it says it could threaten.
The Iranian article comes in the wake of several others that have spelled out a new doctrine for warfare in the region which reflects an offensive stance designed to deal with perceived threats. Iran, in this new article spelling out the triple threat to the region’s waterways, is also upping its rhetoric about drones from Lebanon. The article is based in part on a speech by IRGC Commander Hossein Salami. He said that the Islamic Republic has drones that can even use “artificial intelligence” that can “affect the many strategic passages of the world.”
Iranian military goals and alliances Salami says that the power of Iran’s drones are increasing and that Iran is accelerating its production of the systems. The article says that this has caused the US to “lose its air superiority.”
The article notes that drones threaten the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Israel. It says that in any future or current confrontation with Hezbollah or Palestinian groups, these groups will not have the means to threaten Israel’s “sensitive and vital resources.” This appears to hint at Iran seeking to supply these groups with better weapons. For years, Tehran has moved weapons to Hezbollah via Syria, including PGMs and other munitions. The article says Iran equips these “resistance” groups with ballistic and cruise missiles and “anti-ship missiles.”
The Iranian regime now appears to be spelling out an even greater strategic threat by saying that having equipped Hezbollah, the Palestinians, Houthis and others with weapons, it can threaten major waterways in the region. The article openly notes that a large volume of the world’s trade passes via these waterways and blocking them can affect world energy supplies.
“Now these important sea crossings are within the range of integrated missile and drone networks,” Tasnim notes. The article references the recent Zulfikar drills. This is the third article in two days to highlight this issue. It says the IRGC “practiced an attack on Israel’s weapons of mass destruction production center in Dimona” during an exercise last year “using a combination of ballistic missiles and suicide drones.” This is a reference to an Iranian regime drill and video from December 2021.
“Now it seems that with these actions, Iran, in addition to being able to expand its power and influence in the important region of West Asia, can also affect the most important waterways of the world with its actions,” the article says. It references previous threats to a Saudi ship off of Yemen and also Iranian support for the Houthis and Hezbollah. As with another article Iranian media published this week, this one says Iran could strike at the straits of Mandeb, Hormuz or Suez if there is a threat to its “national interests.”
An Iranian minister is stirring the surrogate pot seemingly not realizing that Tehran and Bandar Shapur and Isfahan are vulnerable.
IRGC Commander Hossein Salami.
Didn’t Trump have him killed in Iraq 4 years ago?
America is not the Iranian worry any more. Biden is irrelevant. President Trump initiated a totally new game in the region with the establishment of the Abram accords. Those accords have grown into the Negev Summit.
The Arabs and Israel are now formally united in the effort to counter Iran and the foolish surrogate facade revealed by the minister.
What’s even more worrisome is the fact there is Arab unity even with Israel left out.
The combined wealth and capabilities of Egypt, Moracco, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the other Arabs is a big time threat to Iran. Throw Israel into the mix and it really become existential for Iran.
There is an even bigger and much, much better Negev Summit in the works in Moracco that has to be terribly worrisome for Iran. The minister knows the Surrogates Hezbollah and Hamas know what’s happening. That is, it may very well be better to toss Iran aside and join the Negev team
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4121948/posts
Yup,it would appear that the Arabs have finally figured out that Israel isn’t a threat to them but that Iran is.
Well no. The guy that was exterminated was Qasem Soleimani
[IRGC Commander Hossein Salami.]
Nah, he’s serving or being served in some NYC deli these days. On Kosher Rye bread.
That being said, Ezekiel 38 is coming. Watch Libya, Sudan, Turkey. Things will change when it all starts forming (the alliance).
I guess they never considered that Tehran could be a big smoking hole in the ground 50 miles wide...............
Spoiler alert!
THEY LOSE!..........................
Oh man, you gave away the ending! People were still at the concession stand!
C’mon man!!
“Things will change (rapidly) when it all starts forming (the alliance).” (bit of an adjustment there)
Funding and drone tech provide by Obama
Sooner or later this will happen and the USA will no longer reopen the Straits. Not our problem.
Let China do it.
Oh that someone would have the guts to reduce Iran to a pile of shimmering sand. Threat neutralized.
“...the country’s missiles and drones now have the “strategic straits” of the region in their crosshairs.”
And we have entered the coordinates into our targeting systems of every toilet Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei craps in.
Iran can also become a glass parking lot.
US sending F-16 fighter jets to protect ships from Iranian seizures in Gulf region
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is beefing up its use of fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to protect ships from Iranian seizures, a senior defense official said Friday, adding that the U.S. is increasingly concerned about the growing ties between Iran, Russia and Syria across the Middle East.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-russia-syria-military-fighter-jets-449a4c6fc9ab90981914c77e2d290f7f
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