Iran will completely shut the strategic Strait of Hormuz if Trump executes threats to target Iranian energy facilities, the country’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Sunday.
Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48-hours, suggesting a significant escalation barely a day after he talked about “winding down” the war, now in its fourth week.
In their Sunday statement Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also said companies with U.S. shares will be ‘completely destroyed’, if Iranian energy facilities were targeted by Washington and energy facilities in countries that host U.S. bases will be ‘lawful’ targets.
Again, again and again Trump has shown that he follows the mindset of the bully, and he’s not even subtle or sophisticated about it: he threatens the other side to get something out of them and if they concede in some way (and merelly trying to accomodate him is seen as a concession), then after a while he’ll come at them again with further threats and demanding even more, whilst if they pushback he TACOes.
We saw this with Europe: Trump does the whole Tariff thing and the EU Commission goes for a trade treaty to accomodate him. He kept on using Tariffs as threat against the EU and EU nations and didn’t took long for him to break that treaty. Meanwhile with the whole Greenland thing Europe started preparing for War and various European nations even sent military trigger forces there with the result that Trump TACOed.
So what Iran is doing is exactly the correct response to somebody like him: “You do that and we’ll fuck your shit up even more than now”.