PNN – An Israeli newspaper wrote that Iran now has two deterrents that are as powerful as nuclear weapons.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the Jerusalem Post newspaper, in a report referring to recent developments after the US and Israel started a war against Iran, wrote that Iran now has two deterrents that are as powerful as nuclear weapons.
The main points of this report are as follows:
The first weapon: the leverage of the Strait of Hormuz
The Jerusalem Post writes that Iran, by dominating one side of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas passes, has a strategic weapon that functions exactly as a tactical deterrent. The weapon was officially launched on February 28, when the war began. The collapse in shipping traffic has led to the daily snarl-up of 13 million barrels of oil produced in the Persian Gulf in storage, which has pushed the price of Brent crude from $70 to a peak of $138 in April and pushed the price of gasoline in the United States by 45 percent, from $2.98 to above $4.50 per gallon. The world is now absorbing the shrapnel from this explosion in the form of inflation and contractionary forecasts by central banks. So the first weapon has been successfully detonated.
Second weapon: Eurasian geography and anti-American transit
Iran’s unique geopolitical position is comparable only to that of Russia. The 7,200-km North-South Corridor from Mumbai to St. Petersburg and the China-Iran railway completely bypass US maritime dominance. On the other hand, buying Iranian oil at a discount in yuan is the engine driving China’s industrial competitiveness. This network targets the Achilles heel of US global dominance and is changing the world order from unipolar to multipolar. Iran’s second geographical weapon is also now being fired, melting away US influence in Eurasia.
No agreement is enough for the West.
The Jerusalem Post wrote that if the war with Iran were over a nuclear warhead, it would end with an agreement similar to the JCPOA; but since the battle is over the first two weapons (Hormuz and geography), no agreement will work for the West.