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To: Owen
I don’t think you understand the shipping that takes place in the Caspian, where product can be intermixed with other product from non sanctioned countries.

That's nice, but it can't replace the 96-96% of oil that Iran exports via the 16 terminals at Kharg, a massive vulnerability. An attack there, coupled with targeted assassinations of Khamenei and his entire general staff, followed by MOAB strikes on the nuclear facilities, would silence them for a decade as we focus on fomenting a massive civil war.

49 posted on 08/25/2024 3:15:44 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

But they already had a civil war. They threw out the Shah. The people in charge are who the people want.

And no about Kharg. The sanctions would stop that were those numbers real. They ship on the Caspian, and their maximum power is that they have the #2 natgas reserves in the world, deep under the Persian Gulf and they share them with Qatar.

Could bomb that, but I don’t think a bomb that big would leave the Persian Gulf intact, which would end exports from rather more other places.

It’s pretty hard to regime change a place that their population wants in place.


54 posted on 08/25/2024 5:04:19 PM PDT by Owen
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