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To: sense who wrote (384)	6/19/2019 2:27:07 AM
From: sense	Respond to of 407

Iran continues following its "plan" for countering U.S. sanctions... Article notes many items the news here seems to have overlooked... It appears there were direct responses made to the two prior Iranian sponsored proxy attacks... which responses were both larger in scope, and vastly more effective. Iran or its proxies attacked a pair of tankers in the UAE... and then launched drone attacks on Saudi oil production facilities... and then, again, have more recently launched attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman... including a Japanese tanker that was attacked while Abe was in Tehran chatting with the Iranian leadership... Never heard that there were responses to those attacks... like in kind... more successful. Trump was right that Obama's deal was both corrupt and nutty... and he's right that Iran clearly can't be trusted with nukes... nor can any state that repeatedly vows "death" to an opponent while seeking them... Trump is also right in wanting to talk with Iran about an "honest" deal... without making any pretense about the bottom line being that Iran will have to give up on nukes... Understand Iran's reluctance... but, that is a mistake... as the article makes it clear that Iran is not going to talk... but intends to proceed as they've said they would in response to sanctions... escalating attacks, apparently without considering the potential consequences, in part out of over-confidence that they're somehow invulnerable to American military might ? All of that would appears to make war an inevitability... with it being only a matter of time before Iran makes a fateful decision to launch a more aggressive and concerted effort to "shut down all oil production" from the Arabian peninsula.