After Iran’s missile attack on Israel last Tuesday, everything now depends on Israel’s counter-reaction, explains Iran researcher Walter Posch. The Israelis are considering attacks on Iran’s energy supplies, such as nuclear and oil facilities. If Iran sets the latter goal, it would have serious consequences: “Iran says: Do it and we will set the world on fire.”
A possible counterattack by Israel on Iranian oil facilities would have fatal consequences, the Iran expert explains in the krone.tv lecture. “It’s really about the economic survival of a sanctioned country.” Iran has announced that it will certainly retaliate. “They then see all oil facilities in the area as victims because the Arab states and the US, which are partly involved in Saudi oil with American companies, do not stop the Israelis. They will say, this will not be an attack that we attribute only to the Israelis, but we expect the US to do this too. What is coming out of Tehran at the moment is: ‘Yes, just do it and we will set the world on fire, because the West will not survive economically either.’
Threats must be taken seriously
This could be dismissed as propaganda, says Posch. “But two years ago I would not have believed that the Iranians would actually go so far as to attack Israel. “So we’ve crossed the Rubicon a few times now, so I’m taking more seriously the statements from Tehran, which until recently I would have classified as pure propaganda and encouragement.”
Compromise solution also possible
However, according to Posch, there could also be another solution that goes beyond an attack. Because the fact is that the US does not want a war against Iran and the Iranians do not want a war against the US. There would therefore also be a possibility that the Israelis would refrain from attacking and instead implement a stricter international sanctions regime against Iran. “That would be a possible compromise solution. But then there really needs to be more and more blocking than is currently the case.”
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