Purim War- Part 3, The End Game*

The end game in the Iran War has begun. By attacking Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility and the Temple Mount, the home of Islam’s Dome of the Rock holy site, Iran has demonstrated it has become desperate. To add an exclamation point to it, Iran fired off an intermediate range ballistics missile (IRBM) at the Diego Garcia airbase 4,000 kilometers away to prove it had a missile capable of reaching western Europe. Instead of scaring off Europe, it will bring NATO around to giving full support to our efforts to reopen the Persian Gulf to navigation.

 

The existence of the Iranian intermediate range missile represents a proof text of the existence of the imminence of the Iranian threat.  Simply put, Iran’s strategy is now to take down everything around it as the price of its regime collapsing. Make no mistake, Iran is being run by a death cult thereby making it less likely that the Mullahs would seek an offramp.

 

In response President Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s electricity infrastructure if it fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by early tomorrow evening. The first round would likely be done with an electro-magnetic pulse weapon used in Venezuela that would not permanently destroy the facility. That along with the Saudi move to kick out the Iranian embassy indicates that by early next week the entire gulf will be ablaze with tit -for- tat Saudi/Iran attacks on each other. In this environment the Persian Gulf will be closed to all.

 

Needless to say, the oil and stock markets will reflect this turn of events with oil prices moving sharply higher and stocks sharply lower.  

 

·       See: Shulmaven: The Purim War and Shulmaven: The Purim War: Part 2 )