SITREP Iran Conflict — 9am Wed/March 11
Escalation Assessment Iran has crossed a significant threshold.
Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran, Iranian military sources are now threatening retaliatory action against US and Israeli financial centers across the region, with specific signals pointing toward tech sector targets.
This represents a deliberate strategic shift from military-to-military engagement toward targeting civilian economic infrastructure, a move that places ordinary American workers, employees of major technology companies, directly in the crosshairs of a regime at war.
This escalation is not a sign of Iranian strength. It is the signature of a losing force making a desperate play. Regimes that are winning wars fight on the battlefield. They do not threaten banks, financial centers, and technology campuses populated by civilian workers.
The decision to escalate toward economic and civilian targets is a calculated gamble by Tehran, an attempt to generate enough global economic disruption and political pressure to force Washington and Jerusalem to stand down before the military situation deteriorates further.
It will not work, but it must be recognized for what it is.
Iran’s air defense architecture has been severely degraded since strikes began on February 28.
Their missile and drone stockpiles are being systematically reduced.
Proxy networks across Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen are fractured or operating under significant constraint.
The transition in the supreme leadership with Mojtaba Khamenei installed only days ago creates internal uncertainty at the command level.
These are the conditions that produce exactly this kind of escalatory threat: loud, broad, and designed to intimidate rather than defeat.
Threatening US tech sector targets is significant for one specific reason. It signals Iran is willing to accept international condemnation for targeting civilian economic infrastructure in exchange for the psychological and political impact of threatening American workers on American soil or in American-affiliated facilities abroad.
That is a terrorism calculus, not a military one.
Iran is making a massive, desperate move because they are losing and they know it. The targeting of financial centers and technology infrastructure is designed to change the psychological terrain of this conflict when they can no longer change the physical terrain.
Desperation dressed as escalation is still desperation. Do not be deceived by it. 5th Generation Warfare at its most defined level.
SITREP IRAN: 8 am March 11
The 1973 oil crisis was a total oil embargo against countries that had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War (another Middle East war—they never seem to end), which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War (a previous Middle East War).
The IEA monitors, among many tasks, global energy markets and coordinates emergency oil reserve releases—like today’s proposed HISTORIC drawdown from the 1.2B barrel stockpile to stabilize prices and supply.
So what?
Fill your gas tanks up now before the prices go up even further.
You may not want war but war wants you and when it takes hold, the costs and consequences are usually severe.
Pray for our troops and our POTUS
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BREAKING: The IEA has proposed the largest release of oil reserves in history, exceeding the 182 million barrel record set in 2022, per WSJ. Details include:
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Avril Haines: Director of National Intelligence and former Brennan deputy, who collaborated on retroactively reclassifying Russiagate documents to prevent their release after Trump’s declassification;
Susan Rice: Former National Security Advisor who participated in key 2016 Oval Office meetings approving the “Hillary Plan” to tie Trump to Russia, which fueled the broader hoax impacting Lokhova;
her lawyer was Kathy Ruemmler, who had connections to Epstein;
John Brennan: Former CIA Director alleged to be a prime architect of the Russiagate hoax, including operations involving Halper and efforts to tie Trump associates like Flynn to Russia;
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Believe or don’t believe, everyone can sense something isn’t right. Exorcist Father Chad Ripperger warned in an interview published on Thursday that the stage is almost completely set for the arrival of the Antichrist. God help us if he’s right.
SITREP: IRAN CONFLICT UPDATE
Intercepted communications indicate Iranian sleeper cells inside the United States are being activated. This is the front that most Americans are not prepared for.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader. He is 56 years old, deeply tied to the IRGC, and more hardline than his father. He participated in the suppression of the 2009 protests. His power base is rooted in the most anti-American factions of Iran’s military and clerical establishment. The situation did not improve when we removed the previous leader. It rarely does.
Iran is executing a rope-a-dope strategy. They absorb strikes while expanding the battlefield horizontally through proxies and asymmetric action. We fought this same war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We lost both. No protest leaders have emerged inside Iran capable of organizing a viable alternative to the regime. The IRGC has not fractured. The protesters are on their own and at grave risk if U.S. forces withdraw before conditions change.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement must operate with heads on a swivel. The threat is real. Congress needs to stop playing politics with DHS funding. Now is not the time.
We are in this war whether we wanted it or not. The question now is how we define victory, how we protect the American people at home, and how we avoid repeating the mistakes of the last two decades. Those answers have to come fast.
As I commented on his facebook page post about targeting financial institutions: He said ‘after confirmed strikes’ by either the US and/or Israel; that Iran would do the same.
He’s saying that THAT is a change from military to military.
My question: Then what the hell do we call the US/Israel targeting Iran finance institutions – Iranian citizens/civilians don’t work there?