🇮🇷🇺🇸 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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**Update

The lightening 4x4 attacks might work in flat areas such as Al Jawf, but almost all areas under the Ansarallah government jurisdiction are highly mountainous regions.

The wave of rather concerning news on the net, is because Ansarallah affiliated news have been very sparse while the Saudis have flooded social media with inaccurate reporting.

Saudi/UAE mercenaries have never been a match for Ansarallah forces and its brothers in Yemeni national army.

While hard fought battles are raging, the rather caricaturesque and premature claims of driving all the way to Sana'a by the Saudi-backed militants are farfetched on some scales and pure comedy on others.

What does nag at us is that Ansarallah is receiving no assistance from Iran, while the Saudi/UAE mercenaries get overt support from several fronts.

So, let's wait for the dust to settle, so we can see more clearly.

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🇩🇪🤝🇮🇱 Volkswagen has finalized a deal with Israeli defense firm 'Rafael' to transform its plant in Osnabrück, Germany, into a factory for components for the Israeli 'Iron Dome' air defense system.

Rafael, Elbit and IAI factories were all heavily damaged during the 12-day & the Ramadan Wars by Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes.

Elbit already has major production facilities in the UK and Germany.

A number of its facilities were sabotaged by pro-Palestine/anti-genocide activists.

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦 Ansarullah missile strikes reported on the Khamis Mushait airbase in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi air force attacks against the Yemeni armed forces have been unrelenting throughout the past 12 hours.

Ansarullah has therefore started striking the Saudi air bases to disturb their operational rhythm.

This gamble will end in tears for Riyadh.

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Amidst the chaos, the Arab League -that very much like Germany, never loses an opportunity to be on the wrong side of history- has also issued a statement, expressing support for Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council and affirming its sovereignty over the entire country, while condemning Iran’s support of Ansarullah.

**Must be something in the water, no?

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦 Abha Airport in Saudi Arabia's Asir region has reportedly received direct hits from Yemeni missiles/drones.

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🇸🇦 Following reports of violent explosions from across southern Saudi Arabia, the regime has activated its public "no-filming" protocol.

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🇸🇦❌️🇾🇪 Images of the bombing of Yemen by Saudi fighter jets.

Yemeni media is already calling the airstrikes "Turkish & Pakistani".

Strange that the two countries which lack the guts to throw even a stone at the Zionist apartheid entity, are now helping Saudi Arabia murder Yemeni people.

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦 Meanwhile, wave after wave of Yemeni missiles and drones are pummeling Saudi Arabia or as Ansarullah calls the country "the heart of sedition" in the world of Islam.

This footage is of Prince Khalid Airbase in Khamis Mushait.

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