The Escalation Continues
According to Newsmax’ reporting, an Iranian official is threatening the use of force in shutting down the Straits of Hormuz. Here’s the main details of the article:
“If Europe does not act wisely with the Iranian nuclear portfolio and it is referred to the U.N. Security Council and economic or air travel restrictions are imposed unjustly, we have the power to halt oil supply to the last drop from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Straits of Hormuz,” said Mohammed-Nabi Rudaki, deputy chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
If Iran puts this policy into action, they should expect quick destruction of their Navy. Shutting off 25 percent of the daily supply of oil would rightfully be seen as an act of war and would warrant a full scale, ferocious attack. The objective in such a war is to utterly devastate the Iranian Navy. In fact, my visceral reaction to Rudaki’s statement is that I’d love it if we used that act of war to launch all out war against Iran; including arming the revolution forces and putting a target on each of the mullah’s chest.
In the end, I’d doubt that they’d be stupid enough to pull a stunt like that.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
January 26th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Sounds like Iran’s stealing plays from the North Korean playbook…
January 26th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I’d love it if we used that act of war to…[arm] the revolution forces….
Heavily arming scrappy jihadis in the Middle East? There’s no way that could backfire on us…..
January 26th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Doubt that they’d be stupid enough to do that? Why doubt that? When one is driven by a god-driven ideology, one doesn’t care what the consequences are because one is a winner either way: If it succeeds, it was god’s will. If it fails and one is killed, one will be with his god.
Others have no part in the equation of idiocy.
January 27th, 2006 at 4:12 am
Could Gumdrop Pass Be Next?
The news that a senior Iranian official has threatened to shut down the Straits of Hormuz has unexpectedly caused quite a stir on college campuses throughout the United States. In recent years American students have been the subject of much