US strikes Iran-backed groups in Syria twice in 24 hours after attacks
The US military said the strikes in eastern Syria were ordered in response to attacks on its troops.
www.bbc.com
So the US killed 2 Iranian backed fighters in Deir Ezzor after a previous strike insured US personnel.
If Syria had as much balls as the Houthis, they would use Iranian loitering munitions to annihilate their occupied oil facilities. PMU could also target stolen Syrian oil going through Iraq.
On the other hand Syria just went through a 10 year war where they were attacked from every side and were always wiped out of existence. Now with Turkey threatening the north it seems that Assad is keen to sit back, rebuild and hope to take advantage of potentially good upcoming opportunities. Another thing to mention is that this is a sensitive time with Iran negotiating the nuclear deal.
I honestly don't think the deal is NOT worth it and I believe that Iran should just go nuclear but I'm guessing that the way the leadership is looking at it is that many Iranians are antagonizing them and blaming them specifically for not making a deal happen.
So Iran is giving in to many unfair US demands and saying fine. I mean after all Iran will get access to tens of billions of funds frozen in foreign accounts and some short term business deals along with some new airliners ? Now if a Democrat wins the presidency, which is really 50/50, then basically the deal will go on for 6 years. If a Republican wins and tears up the deal, all the liberal Iranians will realize that it's the Americans that are the antagonists, not the Iranian government. On the other hand there are always the ultra Shah loving liberals who will always blame the Islamic Republic no matter what happens.
Anyways this time however if a Republican tears up the deal then Iran should have a rock solid contingency plan, like banning the trading of US/EUR with the Rial for a certain period of time, Raising the interest rate to bring down inflation, pegging Iran's currency to Gold/Silver/Copper/Oil for a period of time, etc, measures like the Russians took. Not like Rohani's impotent, pathetic response.
Anyways if the deal goes through, then any company that wants to do business with Iran, especially ones like Renault, Peugeot, which pulled the plug, must open an Iranian bank account and make deposits through those accounts if they want to do business. If not they they can forget it and go f#ck themselves since they're the ones who voided the binding terms of the contract last time. Also any western nations who want Iranian oil should be told that they must open Iranian bank accounts and pay for the oil upfront and perhaps even use their own transport ships to retrieve the oil themselves,especially when it comes close to the deadline.
In my opinion, potential oil customers should be told that if they sign long term deals, like 5-10 years, they will get significant discounts, like 10%-20%. Iran this time must try to establish tight nit relationships with European companies so that if Americans want to leave the deal then the Europeans will be much more reluctant. Because we all know that if the spinelesss Europe really would have stood their ground that it's unlikely that America could have so easily implemented the sanctions and hurt Iran the way it did. Iran really has to play it smart this time around.
Also the alternative to SWIFT, with Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and others. They have to get on it as soon as possible. The Americans have weaponized the US Dollar and SWIFT and potential targets must respond now. The latest I've heard is that Iran is set to join Russia's MIR banking system, but that's not enough in my opinion more has to be done. China should really consider its options because they are the next target after Russia. The US will encourage Taiwan to become independent to cause a war, so that they can antagonize China and cripple China economically. The US will do absolutely anything to remain the worlds number one global super power. China is set to surpass them by GDP. By GDP PPP China has already surpassed them and the US can't stand it.
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