America Strikes: Devalued

Inflation is ravaging the Iranian economy and the nation is broke. Via Breitbart:

“The council of ministers, at a meeting presided by President Hassan Rouhani this morning, approved the central bank’s proposed bill to change the national currency from the rial to the toman and delete four zeros,” the Iranian Islamic regime said in a media statement, according to the government news outlet PressTV. As the reevaluation of the currency must pass through the dictatorship’s rubber-stamp legislature, it will not be confirmed until a final vote in the Iranian parliament.

We've seen some pro-Iranian types saying this is economic terrorism. Beats the real thing though, at which the Iranians are experts.

Jaw-jaw yes. War-war no. So far.

In America Strikes, my friend Sarah Abed thinks the book should be titled American Exceptionalism, the war begins with a campaign to end Iranian interference in the Gulf. Iran responds with terrorism, we respond with an all-out attack on their nuke program, they respond with more terrorism, we invade Lebanon, they respond with even more terrorism, we drop the 82md Airborne on Tehran.

Should I write it for 2020?

Iran to Trump: Hit me

Trump's sanctions on Iran are working. Iran's economy is shrinking, suffering runaway inflation and double digit unemployment.

The Mullahs obviously want some sort of American military action to distract from its' economic doom.

Henceforth this morning we learn that Iran has shot down an American drone.

Is an automated drone worth a war?

Of course not.

This blog supposes Iran's next step is an attack on an American aircraft or even a US naval vessel. The latter would be suicidal, but getting their hands on an American pilot would be Mana for the Mullahs. 

Of course were the US and Iran to fight a war, we wouldn't have to write America Srikes.

War with Iran looms...in Will's Head

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iran attacked those two tankers yesterday and has the film to prove it.

We believe Pompeo. But man this all sounds familiar, like the WMD fiasco and the Gulf of Tonkin all rolled into one. It seems obvious to us that the Trump sanctions are working and Iran is trying to goad us into some sort of military action to distract from the worsening economic situation.

Trump has offered to talk, and we'd much rather talk than fight.

If there is a war between America and Iran, let us confine it to the realm of fiction, say a 400 page novel called America Strikes. There'd be some interesting ops in the Persian Gulf, seizing the straits, taking Iranian islands, destroying oil platforms.

Beats having a real war.

Rattled

Plenty of sabre rattling in the Persian Gulf. 

The Israelis passed on intel to the US about pending Iranian attacks on 'American interests', the Trump Admin dispatches a carrier battlegroup and now we learn B-52s to the region.

Iran threatens, the US counter threatens.

Question, what does Iran feel it gains by attacking American targets?

Supposition: Iranian proxies blowup a barracks, say, or a sink a tanker. 

We respond with a full on aerial assault on a key nuclear facility.

Right?

Or did the Israelis fabricate the intel so we'd do their dirty work for them?

After all, the Jew is clever.