(how true this is even today)
Israel, my people, God's greatest riddle,
Will thy solution ever be told
Fought - never conquered, bent - never broken,
Mortal - immortal, youthful, though old.
Egypt enslaved thee, Babylon crushed thee,
Rome led thee captive, homeless thy head.
Where are those nations mighty and fearsome
Thou hast survived them, they are long dead.
Nations keep coming, nations keep going,
Passing like shadows, wiped off the earth.
Thou an eternal witness remainest,
Watching their burial, watching their birth.
Pray, who revealed thee Heaven's great secret:
Death and destruction, thus to defy
Suffering torture, stake, inquisition -
Prithee, who taught thee never to die
Ay, and who gave thee faith, deep as ocean,
Strong as the rock-hills, fierce as the sun
Hated and hunted, ever thou wand'rest,
Bearing a message: God is but one!
Pray, has thy saga likewise an ending,
As its beginning glorious of old
Israel, my people, God's greatest riddle,
Will thy solution ever be told
Following the U.S. bombing of Iran’s three most fortified nuclear sites, the Iranian government swore revenge. The Iranian parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz.
However, this is more symbolic than real, given both that
elected Iranian bodies have no power over security policy and that the Islamic
Republic relies on the Strait of Hormuz both to export its oil and import much
of its refined gasoline.
Still, the United States and its allies should counter any
move to interfere with freedom of navigation and commerce across a major
waterway, especially one in which its Arab allies depend for their commerce.
The U.S. response should be overwhelming. First, it should
seize Kharg Island. Most tankers cannot safely get into Iranian ports because
the Persian Gulf is so shallow, and the Iranian side is very rocky.
As a result, they load their supply from offshore
terminals, the largest of which is the Kharg oil terminal on Kharg Island, 16
miles off the Iranian coast. Iran exports approximately 90 percent of its crude
oil through Kharg.
However, bombing Kharg will be counterproductive because if
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei falls and the Islamic Republic collapses, Iran could
become a Western ally again; its new government will need Kharg to fuel Iran’s
reconstruction and bring revenue to support the new government.
Occupying Kharg would strain the Islamic Republic
financially, but preserve the infrastructure.
Strike the Navy
Continued Iranian aggression also merits a response against
Iran’s two navies: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrols the
Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy speedboats
regularly harass shipping. It is now time to sink the speedboats and the piers
upon which the Revolutionary Guards depend for their vessels and the smuggling
upon which the organization depends far more than its official budget.
The regular Iranian navy projects power far beyond the
range of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps counterparts. Its submarines now
ply the northern Indian Ocean, and its vessels, both official naval ships and
cargo vessels operating on its behalf, support the Houthis.
The United States should issue an ultimatum: Either ships
dock at key Indian Ocean ports and surrender to local authorities, or the
United States will sink them.
Iranians should not complain; after all, they once launched
Operation Morvarid, a 1980 operation in which Iranian forces largely sank
Iraq’s navy, an event that for Iraq was equivalent to the 1941 Japanese strike
on Pearl Harbor.
Limit the Damage The United States must
take care to limit damage to Iran itself for two reasons: First, the Iranian
people are not an enemy, and second, the less damage Iran suffers, the easier
it will be for the country to recover once Iranians throw off Khamenei and his
fellow clerics.
Occupying Kharg, an isolated island of less than eight
square miles, and targeting the Islamic Republic’s two navies would fulfill the
objective of preventing any meaningful damage to Iranian territory while
ensuring freedom of navigation.
If Khamenei challenges Trump to continue, Trump must deftly
call his bluff.
On January 3, 2021, The Iranian parliament announced a bill to eliminate Israel by 2041
A draft of a bill was published in which the parliament
determined that the regime is obligated to act to destroy Israel within 20
years (following Khamenei's declaration 5 years prior. A countdown clock was placed in Tehran).
The declaration is under the section "Revenge for the
assassination of Qassem Soleimani" alongside a statement that one percent
of all Iranian exports to Iraq will be used as a budgetary source for revenge
that will also work to remove American forces from the region.
An Iranian opposition channel mocked the declaration, noting
that Israel's relations with countries in the region are expanding every day
while Iran's isolation is increasing. This is in addition to the fact that,
according to the channel, Israel has attacked targets of the Iranian Quds Force
in Syria over 500 times in years prior without any significant Iranian response
or retaliation.
Saturday 21.06.25
(Saturday), IAF fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate, struck a surface-to-surface missile engine production site of the IRGC in the Shahroud area of Iran, approximately 2,000 km from Israeli territory, the furthest reach of Israeli aircraft.
The site was struck for its planetary mixers and critical machinery used in the production of engines for missiles launched by the Iranian regime toward the State of Israel.
The site that was struck is part of the effort to damage the Iranian regime’s surface-to-surface missile production industry, which was intended to manufacture thousands of missiles in the coming years.
This is just part of the on going process to hit all Iranian assets involved in the manufacture of the various missiles developed by Iran.
