Nasser Mashadi's List: empire

• US negotiated a $67 billion deal with Saudi Arabi
• United States will provide the United Arab Emirates with “thousands of advanced ‘bunker-buster’ bombs
• Washington also plans to supply Stinger and other missiles to Oman. Kuwait
• Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman all have US military bases
• Michel Chossudovsky, economist and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, says there have been specific, detailed military plans for war with Iran since 2003.
• These war plans go back to the 1990s or even before that
• The Iranians have been preparing for this war for years. They have the S-300 missile defense system, very extensive ground forces – enough to overrun the remaining US forces in Iraq. Our estimates are that Iran can mobilize 2 million troops overnight.”
• “If we had attacked the Iranian positions, all hell would have broken loose,” the unnamed officer said.
• The Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is separated from the regular army and has its own Navy, Aerospace and Ground Forces, as well as Special Forces.
• Pentagon’s own war games in 2002 showed that in the event of an armed conflict, the United States would be overwhelmed by Iran in the Persian Gulf.
• geography literally works against US naval power in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf
• The Iranian missile and torpedo arsenal would make short work of US naval assets in the waters of the Persian Gulf where U.S vessels are constricted.”
• not allow any such action against Iran.”
• refusing to fold under US pressure and halt oil imports from Iran.

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• • Hiatt [2007] S, A Game as Old as Empire pg 28
    
    Barton Gellam " Keeping the U S first: Pentagon Would Preclude a Rival Superpower" Washington Psost 11, 1992