As I said last Saturday:
“I have avoided saying anything about current events because what we are hearing is not exactly what is happening, and what happens afterwards is more important, anyway.”
Within hours of posting last Saturday I was proven right, and one of the dogs that hadn’t been barking...
...starting howling.
So a couple things that I said became obsolete very, very quickly. Taking out Iran’s oil infrastructure is a very big deal and shows us a few things that are not being said. As always, words mean little and actions much.
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Withing hours of clicking the send button for last week’s article, one of the dogs that had been sleeping peacefully, started howling. Up to last Saturday, not a single bomb was hitting oil infrastructure in Iran.
Then just hours into that Sunday morning, Israel took out the major oil storage facilities near Tehran. (Notice that they were storage units and not the harder-to-repair refineries that many of them were connected to.)
Refineries do NOT burn like depots. And it was clear that Israel was hitting storage units. However, the fires were spectacular and the mainstream media ate it all up and cried that it was the end of the world.
Why did Israel do it?
But wait, there’s more...
Then late last Friday, Trump destroyed all the defenses on Kharg Island, without touching a single oil terminal. About 90-95% of Iran’s oil is shipped out of Kharg Island, which means that Iran loses almost all of their oil revenue if those Kharg Island oil terminals are destroyed or captured. (A little bit of their oil goes up through the Caspian Sea.)
Why did Trump do it?
We know the reasons that Israel and the US said. Israel rightly claimed that the easy-to-fix oil storage facilities were owned and operated by a legitimate military target - the IRGC. And Trump claimed that it was to pressure Iran into opening the Strait of Hormuz.
(And yes, I wanted Kharg Island flattened years ago.)
Here was his statement, late on Friday:
Will any of those strikes stop the missile and drone attacks that Iran is launching?
Will these attacks on Kharg Island destroy Iran’s ability to defend itself against the US and Israel?
No.
Those are all tactical questions. Strategic questions would be more like these:
Who stands to lose the most if the oil revenue stops?
To the people who control the money from oil sales, which is more important - their bank accounts or ruling Iran?
Since the water crisis is destroying Iran anyway, why not take the money and run?
These two attacks on Iranian oil were a message to the Ayatollah/IRGC members who control the money flowing from oil sales. These people have skimmed billions of dollars from oil profits, and that money is sitting in offshore bank accounts, while the military isn’t being paid. And that military actually can’t be paid.
Why?
Israel hacked, trashed and blew up the IRGC banking system that pays the military.
Think about this. The people running Iran are filthy rich. Those actually defending Iran on the ground can no longer be paid to defend the filthy rich because the banking centers have been destroyed.
Think about how long soldiers will keep fighting
when their rich masters aren’t paying them
and their families are hungry.
There is a limit to how long the IRGC, Basij militias and the Artesh national army will defend their positions when their families are hungry and the fat cats aren’t feeding them. We are already hearing about soldiers and paramilitary units abandoning their posts and taking their weapons home to defend their families.
When will they switch sides and turn their guns on their corrupt leaders?
Israel has already started applying pressure from a different direction with drones attacking IRGC checkpoints. So, not only are they not getting paid, but they’re starting to get killed - from the sky. So, it should not surprise you that morale is collapsing in the mid-and-low ranks of the IRGC, Basij and Artesh (national army).
Worse, their spiritual leader and commander-in-chief is a picture in a frame. The Supreme Leader is the one who gives them a sense of reason and purpose for doing what they are doing, and he’s not around to do any of that. And rumors are circulating that he’s either in a coma or dead. This means that even the fanatics will start questioning their orders. And those fanatics are probably a bit upset that the Supreme Leader wasn’t chosen by the Assembly of Experts, like he should have been.
How much more will it take before everyone starts questioning their orders when they see more and more of their spiritual leadership fleeing to Canada, Britain and France?
...leaving them to face a population that now wants them dead, because they murdered tens of thousands of Iranians that their fleeing spiritual leaders told them to murder?
Again, the foundation of the Islamic Republic is the spiritual leadership of the Supreme Leader, selected by the 88 member Assembly of Experts. Take that away, and there is no fundamental reason for the Islamic Republic to exist. And that means their reason for fighting for the regime has left the building.
(Remember also that only about five percent
of the Iranian population support the Islamic regime.)
There is one last reason why Israel and the US have attacked and threatened to attack Iran’s oil infrastructure...
Insurance.
If this current conflict fails to install a western-aligned regime, then Iran’s source of income must be completely destroyed. Oil money is the only reason why Iran is a threat. Take that money away, and Iran stops being a threat.
The US and Israel do NOT want to destroy all that oil production. They do NOT want to harm the 90-95% of Iranians who want to be allies with the West. And since global oil production has become fragile, they would like Iran to contribute to global oil supply without funding terrorism or making nuclear weapons. But if they can’t stop the Ayatollahs... they’ll at least have to stop the oil.
Unfortunately, this will eventually lead to 50+ million Iranians fleeing Iran over the next five to ten years, because they’ve run out of water. And yes, the process has already begun. Only Israeli water technology can save Iran, but it won’t happen if the regime in Iran still hates Israel.
NOTE: In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Shah of Iran brought in Israeli water experts to modernize Iranian water infrastructure. When the Islamic Revolution took over, they slowly destroyed what Israel had built.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
שאלו שלום ירושלים
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you... Hosea 4:6
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