It’s as ominous at is sounds. Talk about a choice road towards a new world war. Will Shenzhen be able to prevent it? Don’t hold your breath.
SHANGHAI – After spending 95 minutes on the phone with Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and number two of the Iranian government, three days later President Putin sent his private plane to Tehran to bring Rezaee and a small Iranian delegation to Moscow for a face-to-face meeting at the Kremlin.
The meeting leasted near 3 and half hours. And crucially, Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was in the room, via encrypted phone.
The end game is that Moscow now ranks its strategic partnership with Tehran at the level of its strategic partnership with Beijing, its highest. Significant technology assistance and transfer is under way. Russia has already delivered 12 advanced attack helicopters; a wide range of offensive and defensive equipment; and increased targeting capability, via satellite and fiber-optic drone technology.
That means in practice that Tehran is even more prepared than before to absorb a US and/or death cult attack and to answer it with overwhelming force. Russian engineers from NPO Mashinostroyenia were already helping Tehran to develop a ramjet engine for supersonic cruise-missiles; and there has been an order for 90 launchers for Iran’s Mi-28NE helicopters, routinely photographed at Mehrabad domestic airport since the start of the year.
Translation: any Epstein Syndicate strike plan now runs into an Iran that Moscow weaponizes the way it weaponizes its closest partner. Moreover, the IRGC has de facto lifted its self-imposed 1,200-mile missile-range limit and is building extra underground production and storage sites. Iran’s army spokesman confirms Iran’s forces are “stronger” than when the war began on February 28.
CENTCOM meanwhile is striking still below the level of a certified campaign, against an Iran now better equipped to answer.
Escalation ladder logic though remains in effect. Task Force Iron Gate is the new gimmick – to stop “prohibited” goods (as ruled by the Empire of Piracy) moving overland and across the Caspian, reducing options for both Russia and China.
The heart of the matter is that while the discombobulated Trump administration is picking up the pieces after the Blue-nami midterms, the next two weeks or so might feature some measure of diplomacy, before the Sociopath-in-Chief decides on how to launch a military attack on Iran....
