Hear me out on this one.
What if the Iranian violations of the MOU and their recent attacks on shipping and neighboring countries are thinly veiled assassination attempts? I'm not saying they're trying to assassinate Arab leaders, President Trump or even the CO of one of our carriers.
They're trying to assassinate each other.
Say you were some fourth-tier Iranian leader, maybe a colonel in the IRGC or an elected representative from the Council of Mullahs or the Head of the Goat Inspectors Union or something like that. After a few rounds of directed attacks from Israel and their puppets in the US, most of the people above you are dead. You now occupy the vaunted Chairman of the Special Committee on Falafel Production or Grand Humus Vizier. Looking at the org chart, you just need a couple dozen more whackings and you can make a strong case for taking over the country.
What better way to do that than to tick off the Jews and their American lapdogs with some apparently pointless strikes against shipping or Saudi warehouses? If the Yankees and their Zionist masters get angry enough, they're bound to reply with several more rounds of air strikes. Who knows? You might get lucky.
You stay safely ensconced in your cave in the Mullah Mountains or whatever the most protected Iranian terrain feature is called while your political enemies are scurrying for cover in Tehran or Hamadan or Chah-e Zard* as the infidels' A-10s zoom overhead making those terrifying BRRRRRRRRRTTT noises and everything is shot to pieces.
A couple more whackings by the Great Satan, the Little Satan and maybe a Satan To Be Named Later and voila!, you're the Big Paneer. You come out of hiding and blame the attacks on everyone but yourself, claiming you tried to talk sense into those numbskulls, but they wouldn't listen. You're ready to negotiate in good faith and accept a few billion dollars as well.
It's the perfect crime!
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| Here you are, emerging safe and sound from your Command Bunker. |
* - Seriously, there's a place in Iran called Chah-e-Zard. Here's a picture of the mayor.
1 comment:
You are probably right, there likely is quite a bit of that sort of thing going on. And the beauty of it is, if you do it right there is nothing anybody can trace back to you afterwards. Sometimes, the best way to win is just to stay out of the way while everyone else takes each other down. Like Stephen Bradbury winning the gold medal in the 1000 M short track speed skating in 2002 - just hang back, stay out of the way, and zoom in to take the lead after they all crash out.
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