Posting it here to explain some of the weirdness in the MAtriX News:
April 13, 2024
Iran's Retaliation Delay Keeps Pressure On U.S. And Israel Earlier today the navy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp boarded and seized the container ship MSC Aries near the Strait of Hormuz. The ship is operated by Zodiac Maritime, a company owned by the Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer.
The seizure of the ship can be understood as a warning to the U.S. and its Gulf allies to not get any funny ideas and to attack Iran. A closure of the Strait of Hormuz would increase global oil prices and jeopardize Biden's re-election.
Iran has announced to revenge the Israeli attack on its embassy building in Damascus, Syria.
But it did not announce when, where or how it will retaliate.
By holding back on any hints it increases the anxiety in Israel and Washington DC.
“The pressure is now on Israel and the US rather than Iran. And yes, there are a lot of threatening remarks directed at Iran in the hope that the Iranians don’t act. But the die was first cast by Israel,” said Vali Nasr, a professor of international affairs at John Hopkins University. “And now people are trying to avoid what might be consequences.”
Biden does not want the US to be pulled into a war with Iran, particularly as he seeks reelection in November. But Washington’s default policy has long been to support Israel, Nasr added.
Would a real superpower ever do this (archived)?
The US has asked China and other countries, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to urge Tehran not to launch a retaliatory attack on Israel for its air strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria. Neither of the countries asked has any reason to be helpful to the U.S. and certainly not to Israel.
The costs of keeping the watch up and the weapons manned will over time become unbearable for Israel as well as for the U.S.
It is thus better for Iran to wait with any bigger retaliation it may plan to carry out.
Posted by b at 13:30 UTC | Moon of Alabama
I'm pretty sure that it was DJT who shared that after the assassination of Soleimani, the Iranian govt told him that they would have to make a strike in order to satisfy the Iranian people, but that it wouldn't be lethal. That's what happened and then the drama seemed to dissipate. This could be the same sort of thing. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Israel is responsible, the timing of it seems a little surprising. On the one hand, they probably had an idea of what to expect from Iran. I also wonder if they would make a move like that w/o the US. They might. What was going through my mind is that it seems to me that the elite, including our own highly corrupted govt, wants a world war. I was wondering if they might be looking to provoke an escalation. So far, it doesn't seem to be going that way. At least not for now. Biden himself has admitted that world leaders will orchestrate accusations against one another. "I'll say this then you say that,"etc. This probably applies to other things as well. At least one time, I've actually believed that something he said might actually be true. 😏