UPDATED 17 August 2010 to add:
NIGHTWATCH Extract:
Iran: Ali Shadmani, head of the armed forces Department of Operations, outlined three plans that Iran could carry out in the event of an act of aggression from the United States, Iranian news website Tabnak reported 17 August.
First, Shadmani said Iran would take over complete control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Second, he said Iran is closely monitoring U.S. military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq and would “paralyze the forces in these bases” and “not let them make any moves.”
Third, the last plan Shadmani articulated is to “destroy the peace” in Israel.
NIGHTWATCH Comment: These are a sample of Iranian options for retaliation. All are within Iran's capabilities to at least attempt.
Phi Beta Iota: The illustration above is from earlier plans to destroy US ground forces in Iraq if it appeared they were being successful. The USA still has not learned that prolonged occupations where they are not wanted costs the US much more than those who oppose the US. It has also not learned that the one thing that unites the Arabs on covert extremism is the US-Israel “axis of evil.” Iran is winning on all fronts because the US political-policy apparatchiks suffer from “strategic decrepitude.” Putting a carrier in the Gulf of Hormuz is right up there with putting a battalion of Marines in a single building accessible to a suicide truck bomber. The US confuses enemy restraint in taking away the low-hanging fruit (usually long ground supply lines and undefended rear area C4I nodes) with effective strategy. Not so. The picture here depicts the ROOF of the building that came down on the Marines.
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