Originally published in Spanish... translation by AI ... Some errors in syntax
The sending of at least 5,000 US Marines and airborne troops to the Middle East constitutes a clear warning to the various groups that still make up the Iranian regime: the United States and Israel are about to economically suffocate the country and turn it into a practically uninhabitable zone, unless credible spokespersons, responsible for the regime's behavior, commit to ending Iran's nuclear ambitions and its support for international terrorism.
It is an extraordinary manifestation of the uniqueness of the Trump era that animosity toward the president in the United States and in some parts of Western Europe and Canada is such that those who suffer from irrational hatred toward Trump have already come to claim that the war against Iran has been a failure.
According to the usual criteria, this conclusion is not only erroneous but an act of manifest folly. Iran lacks air and navy defenses, except for a few coastal boats with outboard motors that seem like a militarization of the regatta of any yacht club in the interior of North America.
Iran does not have an effective air force, and the number of missiles and drones it fires daily has fallen by 85 to 90 percent since the war began four weeks ago.
The first two levels of the high command have been killed and more than 10,000 national military targets destroyed, and the United States has suffered eight combat casualties (although five other people died in an accident unrelated to the combat).
President Trump he has made it clear that if Iran does not accept before April 6 the basic conditions of a verifiable abandonment of its nuclear military program and an absolute and permanent suspension of all aid to identifiable terrorist organizations, the United States and Israel will take the island of Kharg and confiscate the millions of barrels of oil stored there.
In addition, they will take necessary measures on Iran's southern coast to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, dismantle the country's entire power grid and oil production and refining facilities, close ports, and begin economic strangulation. total of Iran. All of this will require Iran's military presence, and they have already arrived.
While this occurs, the United States and Israel will continue their strategic bombing raids, including using drones to attack Revolutionary Guard checkpoints and eliminate other tactics used to intimidate the Iranian population.
The goal is to increase the pressure for as long and with the intensity necessary to destroy the heinous and theologically perverted tyranny that has been imposed on Iran and that has been the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world for 47 years.
With a minimum of objectivity, it is evident that, far from being the quagmire and stagnation proclaimed by the anti-Trump media in the United States and other countries, what has happened has, in fact, been the most unequal war in history. modern authentic states.
This excludes simple power takeovers in which barely a shot was fired, such as the german occupation of Denmark in 1940 or even the seizure of power by the United States of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989, where 23 American soldiers died.
In the history of states with substantial military forces exchanging fire over a period of more than a few weeks, there has never been such a crushing strategic defeat of one side by the other as in this conflict.
Not even the Six-Day War in 1967, in which Israel seized the Sinai, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, managed to defeat the forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan to the extent that the United States and Israel They have defeated Iran in the last month.
As with most issues related to media coverage of the Trump administration, readers should be alert to absurd and false claims about the status of their initiatives.
The United States' allies in NATO, for the most part, are undecided about whether this war is a matter of interest to the NATO, even though the Iranians have proven to have missiles capable of reaching London and Paris, and only US intervention has prevented such missiles from carrying nuclear warheads.
It is a characteristic phenomenon of this war that a clear understanding of its objectives —and the need to achieve them— is perversely hampered by the psychiatric inability of the current American president's fanatical detractors to accept its success.
Western victory in the war on terrorism, the creation of conditions that allow lasting peace in the Middle East and end the terrorist dispute over Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, and the return of the ancient land of Persia to the group of civilized nations of the world, are highly desirable objectives and are now within reach.
The withdrawal of Iran, Venezuela- Cuba and Syria as Russian-Chinese allies, and US control of more than half of China's current oil supply, are altering the international correlation of forces in favor of the democratic West.
Whether survivors of the crumbling Iranian regime reconsider and opt for peace, or Americans and Israelis subdue the remnants of that regime, whether on April 6, these benefits will become evident. Hence the importance of the United States strengthening its expeditionary force in the Middle East with mobile ground attack capabilities.
https://www.elepoch.com/opinion/conrad-black-los-objetivos-de-la-guerra-contra-iran-estan-ahora-al-alcance-de-la-mano-58054