Put a blockade up in the Persian Gulf and really make the Iranians pay economically for their nuclear weapons if they want them that bad.
I don’t care about the Iranian people liking the USA or whoever else…..the bottom line is that Iran doesn’t need nukes, and I say we take all measures short of going to war to make that happen.
I don’t want to go to war with Iran, so I say just put a Navy blockade in the Gulf and that will cripple them even more. It won’t completely shut them down, but it’s going to make them work a lot harder for it.
I can promise you that if the U.S. Navy puts a carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf that the Iranians aren’t going to be able to do anything about it. The USN can sit in that body of water all day long and there is nothing Iran can do about it.
I bet that really bothers some of you though. 🙂
I think this is very likely on the cards in the not to distant future. Increasing the naval prescence in the area, does indicate that this strategy is at the forefront of American Planners minds..
What other options are there other than all out war??
This strategy also opens the chance of some European involvement, which if Air strikes were carried out, we would not see.
The removal of UK troops indicates no ground campaign is foreseen, since they would of been vital if for no other reason than to just sit on the border.
I dont know what timescale we have here, sanctions wise, so i dont know when an independent US blockade would start.
But in my opinion, the US will wait and see what happens in the UN, then do it with or without them.
However this plays out, i think we are heading for a shooting war further down the line, but ive a feeling it will be instigated by the Mullahs in an attempt to focus the Iranian peoples attention to the big Satan, rather than the same people looking at them.
An attempt to hit Saudi oil fields or escalate the war in Iraq are two options. A third is to switch attention towards the lebanon, where the west has Peacekeepers. And a fourth, is a full out attack to try and break any blockade, with the possible pretence of an american boarding of an Iranian vessel.
Talking is just biding time for the Mullahs to prepare and hide their nuclear facilities, and the longer it gets drawn out, the harder these targets become to take out, and the longer the air campaign to do that.
So its basicly in Irans interest to talk.
In the meantime, they try to get US troops bogged down in Iraq, since they know that the longer the US remains, the less likelyhood there is of any huge public support for any Air campaign against Iran.
My personal opinion, and this will upset some, is to go now, hit them when they dont expect it, otherwise i see a long protracted campaign on the horizon.
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