Yup!

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I bet his dealer programmed it!

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Pravin Sawhney: Iran just demonstrated why the U.S. naval blockade may be in trouble

Iran may have just changed the military equation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pravin Sawhney argues Tehran’s recent anti-ship ballistic missile launch wasn't intended to hit an American warship, but to show that it could.

According to Sawhney, the missile used a depressed trajectory, dramatically reducing the time available for Aegis-equipped U.S. destroyers to detect, track and intercept a weapon approaching at roughly Mach 10.

That matters because the destroyers are the shield around the carrier.

Sawhney says a warhead of roughly a tonne arriving at that speed could potentially punch through a destroyer’s deck.

Iran deliberately missed, he argues, because the point wasn't to kill hundreds of sailors.

It was to demonstrate that the ships enforcing the blockade are vulnerable.

And Tehran is now pairing that military warning with a political one, announcing plans for a restricted shipping zone extending from the U.S. blockade line through Hormuz.

Sawhney’s conclusion is unusually simple:

“The American naval blockade is in trouble.”

Washington wants to prove it controls the Strait.

Iran is trying to prove that anyone enforcing that control has to sit within missile range.

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🇮🇷❌️🇺🇸 Report: missile fire from Iran's 'Sirik' toward potential target in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇶🇦 Majed al-Nasari, Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson, says the US military presence in the region is "not enough" anymore.

He says instead of calling for the US to reinforce its position, Qatar advocates self-sufficiency, diversification in the security realm and for the Persian Gulf Arab states to be responsible for their own defence.

**Iran's been saying this for 47 years, BTW.

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🇮🇷❌️🇺🇸 Several more missiles reported launched from Iran at targets in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦🇦🇪 Reports from Yemeni sources claim that five cruise missiles have struck positions held by UAE-backed militias.

The trajectory of the strikes traces back in the direction of the Sea of ​​Oman.

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News sources:

Saudi Arabia has hired mercenaries from Syria to participate in the war against Yemen.

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🇸🇦❌️🇾🇪 The Ministry of Defence of Yemen's Saudi-backed government has announced that the operation to capture Sana'a has begun.

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**As we write these words, numerous Saudi-backed mercenaries in Yemen have launched a broad operation against Ansarallah from multiple directions under a unified command.

They're employing the Syrian rebel tactics of fast attacks by heavily armed 4x4 vehicles.

According to the Defense Minister of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government, the operation aims to capture Sana'a.

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🇸🇦❌️🇾🇪 Deployment of experienced terrorist groups that previously fought in Syria to Yemen for war against Ansarullah.

Currently, full-scale clashes are ongoing between Ansarullah and Saudi-Emirati affiliated forces on all fronts leading to Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.

Heavy fighting has reached within 150 kilometers of Sana'a.

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦 Clansmen affiliated with Yemen's Ansarullah in Al-Jawf have mobilized in a general call to the field to push back the Saudi mercenaries.

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🇮🇱 Zionist media:

For the fourth time in 38 hours, an Israeli army soldier from Kiryat Gat has ended his life.

He had suffered psychological trauma after the war. Details of another incident will be released subsequently.

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