>Roxane Farmanfarmaian, a Gulf security specialist and professor of modern Middle East politics at the University of Cambridge, has said that despite longstanding speculation that Iran targeted Gulf countries in hopes of pressuring them into influencing the United States to halt the war, the strategy has not succeeded in stopping the fighting.
>“But it has changed the dynamic in the Gulf,” she told Al Jazeera. “Part of the calculation that we’re seeing evolve is that Iran is coming to realise very clearly that it has control over the global oil price and also access by being able to shut down oil tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz – in fact, out of any of the Gulf area.”
>She said that with the UAE’s Fujairah already hit, another potential target could be the oil pipeline running across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea, suggesting the strategy may be shifting towards amplifying global economic pressure.
>“There’s a good chance, I think, that that might be targeted because I think the purpose is now not just to attack the Gulf, but to ensure that in Washington, the pain that the Gulf is undergoing and the world in general because of the oil shortage is felt starkly in the stock market and in the price of gas [petrol] at the American pump.”
Significant_Swing_76 on
And all it takes is one major loss of american soldiers, a loss so significant that the current administration can’t bury it, and then it’s another forever war.
So far it seems as the Iranian government is far far far from beaten.
myrainyday on
The world wants Khamenei family to simply disappear. Don’t they have buildings with windows where they live? Or they can simply travel to Russia to seek asylum.
They are just keep making enemies with the monarchies around them. Its ridiculous how much time they are spending at attacking certain targets while the goal for them is to leave the country.
Does this mean that they believe in victory?
stonezdota on
These Muslim countries affected by decades long of Iran terrorist proxxy should really consider actively acting against Iran.
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[Fujairah, the world’s largest oil terminal has already been hit. ](https://news.liga.net/en/politics/news/drones-attack-one-of-the-worlds-largest-oil-terminals-in-the-uae-video)
Trump’s gamble of intimidating Iran by bombing Kharg island has failed.
Boots on the ground next? Not a whole lot of options left.
>[Iran seems to be changing strategy towards amplifying global economic pressure](https://aje.news/j4onxu?update=4398058)
>Roxane Farmanfarmaian, a Gulf security specialist and professor of modern Middle East politics at the University of Cambridge, has said that despite longstanding speculation that Iran targeted Gulf countries in hopes of pressuring them into influencing the United States to halt the war, the strategy has not succeeded in stopping the fighting.
>“But it has changed the dynamic in the Gulf,” she told Al Jazeera. “Part of the calculation that we’re seeing evolve is that Iran is coming to realise very clearly that it has control over the global oil price and also access by being able to shut down oil tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz – in fact, out of any of the Gulf area.”
>She said that with the UAE’s Fujairah already hit, another potential target could be the oil pipeline running across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea, suggesting the strategy may be shifting towards amplifying global economic pressure.
>“There’s a good chance, I think, that that might be targeted because I think the purpose is now not just to attack the Gulf, but to ensure that in Washington, the pain that the Gulf is undergoing and the world in general because of the oil shortage is felt starkly in the stock market and in the price of gas [petrol] at the American pump.”
And all it takes is one major loss of american soldiers, a loss so significant that the current administration can’t bury it, and then it’s another forever war.
So far it seems as the Iranian government is far far far from beaten.
The world wants Khamenei family to simply disappear. Don’t they have buildings with windows where they live? Or they can simply travel to Russia to seek asylum.
They are just keep making enemies with the monarchies around them. Its ridiculous how much time they are spending at attacking certain targets while the goal for them is to leave the country.
Does this mean that they believe in victory?
These Muslim countries affected by decades long of Iran terrorist proxxy should really consider actively acting against Iran.