Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[Persian Gulf]

Oil prices and bond yields are rising. Someone confiscate Pezeshkian’s mobile devices before he can say something stupid to help the enemy.

 

[lightning f57]

Economic indicators lag so what we are seeing is the beginning of the edge of the cliff.

UK likely will enter recession this year, Wall street expecting 30% chance the US will with inflation over 3%.

Once barrel of oil hits $125, we all going to be on a rough ride.

 

[Optical216]

Economic indicators lag so what we are seeing is the beginning of the edge of the cliff.

UK likely will enter recession this year, Wall street expecting 30% chance the US will with inflation over 3%.

Once barrel of oil hits $125, we all going to be on a rough ride.

couldve all been avoided if trump did not do this to make people forget about the pedo files

 

[Meengla]

If the Iranian regime is still standing AND they can maintain control over Hormuz (i.e. levying variable tolls that suit their interests), then any Iranian would bite your hand off for that and it would be a victory. It remains to be seen whether they are willing to compromise on the other parts of their original 10 point plan. I suspect they will want the right to have a long range missile and drone capability also, at the very least.

Bolded part. That's the key. If one reads the terms offered to Iran during the Oman talks just before this war it was something like 'Under American supervision, Iran's missile stockpile would be reduced to shorter range like 150 miles and the number of missiles and drones reduced'. (Paraphrased). That language had been around for months before even the Oman talks and was a verbatim Netanyahu speaking through Trump!

Araghchi and his men's clumsy diplomacy has cost Iran the advantage it gained on the battlefield. The IDF invasion is expanding in Lebanon, and Iran is under a naval blockade, cutting off its supplies. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are diverting exports via pipelines, leaving Iran isolated. Time is no longer on Iran's side. Once Iran is sufficiently worn down, the Zionist Air Force, fully resupplied, will launch a surprise attack. Iran has lost the war on the battlefield of diplomacy.

Pray, tell me, what could the diplomacy do to stop all the events that you have in your post? Nothing!

And every day the US delays returning to military action against , its confidence in its ability to achieve its goals via military means rereduces.
Also, I've come to the conclusion that the main reason US needed the ceasefire and maintains it is to prevent further deaths and injuries amongst its troops in the gulf(tol many died and got injured in a short time period), due to its inability to protect its troops effectively, because it is low on air defense interceptors.
Ukraine really drained US militarily.

Good post. I also think Iran is capable of giving significant pain to any attackers and maybe the Isfahan raid to rescue the WSO was a major warning to not escalate and give diplomacy a chance. Pakistan's retired Air Commodore Khalid Chisti repeatedly says he has analyzed data and has concluded that Iran has some weapons capable of striking fighter jets.

I don't think they give af. I mean they just stationed Israeli troops there and equipment. Its a shame actually. I liked Dubai and Abu Dhabi. They provided a lot of jobs to people from around the world. Iran did a lot of trade through the bazaaris there. I really hope they survived and recover - but as a Muslim leader, not a stooge of the non-Muslims.

I don't hate the UAE like many do here and even admire they built a vibrant society taking advantage of their oil wealth; plus the employment in the UAE indirectly lifted millions of people out of poverty in several countries. I am just baffled as to why their stupid leadership thinks that by being in bed with the Israelis like this, given UAE's geographic location, they will benefit. At most they can be a launch pad to attack Iran and possibly even destabilize Saudi Arabia but that will be extremely dangerous for UAE itself--suicidal, I would say.

 

[Optical216]

Yeah, I don't think so. Wait for protests and strikes even larger than the January protests.

The system is eager to keep Pezeshkian in power. Maybe Trump is right. Maybe there is no unified leadership in Iran anymore. There has been no clear leadership after the assassination of Raeesi anyway.

after larijiani that guy looked like the last leader to have a spine

But do not lose hope, pezeshkian is a figurehead only and irgc is running the real things.

 

[hussain0216]

Yeah, I don't think so. Wait for protests and strikes even larger than the January protests.

The system is eager to keep Pezeshkian in power. Maybe Trump is right. Maybe there is no unified leadership in Iran anymore. There has been no clear leadership after the assassination of Raeesi anyway.

Buddy your in the middle of a war, of course things are not going to be rosy

In the middle of a war any protesters should be treated like traitors and exterminated

Life is tough, the Zionists and the U.S have actively sought to harm Iran, Iran's resistance has been incredible the fact that they are even standing after decades of attempts is incredible


Now is not the time to let pusseys wimp out

As tough as it is, Iran must stick to it's guns and demands
Get the sanctions lifted
All U.S bases out of the region
And punish the states that supported this attack on Iran

 

[Persian Gulf]

Economic indicators lag so what we are seeing is the beginning of the edge of the cliff.

UK likely will enter recession this year, Wall street expecting 30% chance the US will with inflation over 3%.

Once barrel of oil hits $125, we all going to be on a rough ride.

UK 30 year gilt yield is above 5.7%, the highest level in 30 years

While Brent crude just hit $118

 

[ShapurII]

after larijiani that guy looked like the last leader to have a spine

But do not lose hope, pezeshkian is a figurehead only and irgc is running the real things.

Larijani was never the leader of Iran.

The IRGC does not run the government.

 

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[BHAN85]

Araghchi and his men's clumsy diplomacy has cost Iran the advantage it gained on the battlefield. The IDF invasion is expanding in Lebanon, and Iran is under a naval blockade, cutting off its supplies. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are diverting exports via pipelines, leaving Iran isolated. Time is no longer on Iran's side. Once Iran is sufficiently worn down, the Zionist Air Force, fully resupplied, will launch a surprise attack. Iran has lost the war on the battlefield of diplomacy.

If Iran is clumsy diplomacy, what is USA diplomacy of current administration of clowns sending real state sellers and son in law to a diplomatic meeting?

You can do a better war if you are stronger, build weapons and so on.

But you can't do a better diplomacy if the other side is fooling you and dont want any agreement.

In Middle East is happening what is expected by everybody long ago, what USA must want, world economy shrinking.

Pipelines are no a solution, oil fields are near to Iran soil, easily bombed with cheap drones, Iran can't be ignored.

USA is fooling the world, again, and again and again with the most stupid lies and nonsenses, like they are used to do.

It seems some people can just believe any huge bullshit if it comes from the right authority voice.

 

[925boy]

“Add to that, vacant storage capacity on shore.”

+ land routes

It’s more than 6 weeks

Iran can handle economic pressure. If things get bad Iran can close the Bab el Mandeb as well.

I agree, and add the railway route to china and russia and oil swaps and trade iran can do with Russia using the Caspian sea, and iran will have working alternatives to the SOH route in a few months. Pakistan will also Play an important role in facilitating serious overland trade with iran, and it miiiight reactivate the Iran Pakistan gas pipeline.

This war, for how short it has been, will revise the region's dynamics and trade seriously,to US 's (and its gulf stooges)detriment.

My american side hates the way US has played it's war card against Iran. US will not be able to suffocate iran! I am sure of this now.

 

[BHAN85]

Current USA diplomacy is likely the worst diplomacy of any country or empire ever in whole mankind history. They are deliberately trolling the world.

They can't confess real reasons: Decrease world economy consumption, so they chose the dumbest ever leadership to break all relations with allies, enemies, everybody.

Besides you can't know who the hell really give the war orders in that Jew-controlled country, full of retarded shabbo gentiles bribed and blackmailed publicly in the daylight.

 

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It's a battle of nerves now between the US and Iran. The high energy costs have a major impact on the US economy, despite Mr Trump's bluster. If Iran can hang on, the political and economic pressure on Mr Trump builds every day.

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Maybe...but the reality is the Iran thing has already been forgotten by the average man on the street.

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Iran war could push 30 million people into poverty: UN​

The UNDP says the war will have a profound impact on Sub-Saharan African countries as well as certain countries in Asia such as Bangladesh and Cambodia. (File/AFP)
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Iran war could push 30 million people into poverty: UN

PARIS: The US-Israeli war on Iran, which has sent the price of energy and fertilizer soaring, could plunge more than 30 million people into poverty, the head of the UN Development Programme said Wednesday. “It’s development in reverse,” Alexander De Croo told AFP on the sidelines of a G7...

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• A shortage of supplies and high prices has led to countries in Africa and Asia imposing a range of measures that include fuel rationing and shortening the work week

PARIS: The US-Israeli war on Iran, which has sent the price of energy and fertilizer soaring, could plunge more than 30 million people into poverty, the head of the UN Development Programme said Wednesday.

“It’s development in reverse,” Alexander De Croo told AFP on the sidelines of a G7 development meeting in Paris.

“It took decades to build stable societies, to develop local economies, and it took only several weeks of war to destroy that,” he added.

“We did a study after six weeks of war and estimated that even if the conflict ended at that point, 32 million people would be pushed into precarity in 160 countries,” said De Croo.

The war has led to closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows in peacetime.

Gulf nations are also important for many oil products and feedstocks to make fertilizer.

A shortage of supplies and high prices has led to countries in Africa and Asia imposing a range of measures that include fuel rationing and shortening the work week to reduce consumption. Other countries have reduced fuel taxes to cushion the impact on consumers.

The UNDP says the war will have a profound impact on Sub-Saharan African countries as well as certain countries in Asia such as Bangladesh and Cambodia.

Developing island nations will also be particularly hard hit.

High “energy costs, a lack of fertilizer, will have an enormous impact in the months to come” on people in these countries, said De Croo, a former prime minister of Belgium.

He also warned of “political instability and a drop in remittances from abroad because a lot of people working in the Gulf countries send money home.”

To avoid poverty taking hold, the UNDP estimates that around $6bn “is needed in subsidies to support those most vulnerable to high food and energy prices,” he added.

De Croo said discussions were already underway within the IMF and World Bank.

“You can say that six billion dollars is a lot — the war cost nine billion dollars per week,” he added.

The crisis comes as development aid is at a historic low, having dropped by more than 23 percent last year, primarily due to cuts by major donors led by the United States.

Iran war could push 30 million people into poverty: UN

PARIS: The US-Israeli war on Iran, which has sent the price of energy and fertilizer soaring, could plunge more than 30 million people into poverty, the head of the UN Development Programme said Wednesday. “It’s development in reverse,” Alexander De Croo told AFP on the sidelines of a G7...

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[Watandar]

Maybe...but the reality is the Iran thing has already been forgotten by the average man on the street.

They are reminded every time they pass by a gas station.