Iran’s Regime – Low on Time, Out of Leverage, Long on Desperation

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As the Islamic regime in Iran grows more desperate, knowing that they are being economically choked to death, knowing their leverage via the Strait of Hormuz is gone, and facing the reality of their dwindling military capabilities, one thing remains clear…their apocalyptic death-cult is planning for a last-ditch, blaze of barbaric savagery akin to what I described at the end of my commentary a week ago as “burning their country to the ground so they can rule over the ashes.”

I’ll get back to this shortly.

While the IRGC does indeed fear military responses should they decide to strike Israel, from both Israel and the U.S., and while they know (even though they would never admit it) that such strikes would be devastating to the regime, there is something they fear even more…the Iranian people. The IRGC understands that an all-out military operation by Israel, by the U.S. or what would most likely be a combined U.S., Israeli military campaign unlike anything ever seen can, and would destroy IRGC and regime personnel, they also know only the Iranian people can truly topple the regime and remove the 7th century, 12 Shia ideology from power.

So, what will the regime’s “burning their country to the ground so they can rule over the ashes” look like…at least in part? Near the end of our RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS broadcast last Tuesday, September 29th, at the 1:21:45 mark you will hear in that discussion Diane Sori bring up “bio-weapons.” Diane said “if they were smart, they would not shoot them at Israel…” To be clear, “smart” has nothing to do with their calculation. DESPERATION has EVERYTHING to do with it, but it goes much deeper than most people think as some believe Israel is likely to be the regime’s primary target for that final desperation hail Mohammad.

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The Iran War – Options vs. Alternatives Part 2

Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

The strategy employed by the U.S. against the Iranian regime should be pretty clear by now except to some critics of President Trump who are getting close to stage 3 TDS. The strategy, as I have said many times, is to use our military to cut the Iranian regime off from the one thing they need the most…money…while systematically eliminating remaining targets that threaten not only our military, but Iran’s Arab State neighbors, shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, and potential ground operations that may well be coming soon against the IRGC.

Evidence that the strategy is working can easily be found if one pays attention to reports, not only from our military, CENTCOM or our media, but also from more unlikely sources like Iran itself.

Sure, there are those who are fit to be tied over pauses in the action, and over “negotiating” with the enemy, but I believe that those who have adopted the talking points of the IRGC, in that “The U.S. is losing the war,” or that “Trump is a fool and doesn’t know what he’s doing,” would rather continue to virtue-signal their own personal armchair quarterback belief that they could do better if they, not President Trump were running the show.

As for the most recent “pause” for so-called “negotiations,” just over a week ago, it wasn’t President Trump, nor was it Steve Witkoff or Jared Kushner who suggested it, rather it was Admiral Bradley Cooper, Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) who advised it and for a very interesting reason…the U.S. military had run out of targets related to the Strait of Hormuz. This isn’t to suggest that Iran has nothing remaining with which to threaten shipping, just that the IRGC hasn’t exposed any of what they may have left or where they’ve been hiding it for about a week.

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The Iran War – Options vs. Alternatives Part 1

Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

Political analysts, think-tank sorts, some religious and/or theocratic scholars, and various other critics have been quick to argue that President Trump is “mismanaging the war” because he simply “does not understand radical Islam or the Iranian regime’s death-cult mindset.” Some on the right side of the aisle also claim that “Trump is losing the war.” Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I believe our president has a much better understanding of the radical Islamic mindset than do some of his critics, I believe he has a much deeper understanding of the broader Middle East mindset than his critics claim he has, and I know that there is no easy way to fight ANY war, especially one with so many moving pieces as this one.

While President Trump’s primary stated purpose for this war is to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon, we all know that the only way to ensure that is to create regime change in Iran. Here’s the problem with the U.S. engineering regime change – we have a terrible success rate in doing that. Viet Nam, Korea, and several recent attempts in the Middle East…including in Iran in 1979 leap to mind. But that’s not the only issue we face. Go too fast and you create a vacuum of power. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, don’t want to do that again.

Go too slow, you wind up as a tourist in Hanoi pretending it was an adventure on your bucket list for decades.

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