What’s in effect now is the rewriting of the global operating system. And the new OS runs on petroyuan.
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The infernal escalation machine is reaching Desperation Row.
The Secretary of Forever Wars employed by the We-Are-So-Tired-of-Winning Baboon of Barbaria is mulling several “ground invasion” scenarios parallel to a devastating bombing campaign to allegedly unleash the “final blow” on Iran.
Kharg island is a diversion: too far away from the action. Seizing ships on the eastern side of the Strait of Hormuz is unfeasible: that will inevitably be met by a barrage of anti-ship missiles.
Two scenarios remain: seizing Abu Musa and the big and small Tunb islands, north of the UAE (and claimed by the UAE); or the World small island of Larak (east of the larger Qeshm), part of the nautical corridor where the IRGC Navy controls the passage of tankers that paid the toll booth in the Strait of Hormuz.
The only way to get to Larak is from Qeshm.
Qeshm is bigger than Okinawa. During WWII it took 3 months, 184,000 troops, and at least 12,500 K.I.A. to take Okinawa. Queshm is crammed with countless Iranian anti-ship missiles and drones dug into cliffs and caves for hundreds of kilometers back.
Now to the three Iranian islands also claimed by the UAE.
The UAE rejects even the possibility of a ceasefire with Iran. Their ambassador to the U.S., Yousef al Otaiba, wrote a warmongering op-ed calling for a “conclusive outcome” of the war, as in dismantling the “Iranian threat”. He later confirmed that Abu Dhabi wants to lead a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (which is not closed; only for hostile nations to Iran).
What really matters is the “follow the money” angle: Yousef al Otaiba reaffirmed the $1.4 trillion UAE investment commitment in the Empire of Chaos – which covers multiple deals in energy, AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and manufacturing.
The infernal escalation machine is in full effect. Tehran carefully studied every instance of the UAE’s direct involvement not only in the outbreak of the war but also the current escalation. Abu Dhabi not only hosts U.S. military bases; but also allowed the U.S. to use some of its own air bases to attack Iran, and helped hostile entities to develop their target database using the Emirates AI infrastructure.
That’s than predictable, because Abu Dhabi is a de facto, key Zionist axis ally in the Persian Gulf.
Tehran introduces the highway to hell to Abu Dhabi
The UAE for all practical purposes is entering the war against Iran. So it’s no wonder that Tehran has already mapped out five key targets for its lethal counterpunch – as revealed by the Fars news agency:
- The Jebel Ali power and desalination complex in Dubai.
- The Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi.
- The Al Taweelah power station.
- Dubai’s M Station.
- The Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park.
Striking these 5 confirmed targets will trigger wide-ranging blackouts, cripple desalination, and shut down data centers all across the Emirates. Tehran is doing the courtesy of showing Abu Dhabi, before the fact, the certified highway to hell if U.S. Marines start their Hormuz expedition from UAE soil.
Abu Dhabi won’t know what hit them. And an extra target may be – again – the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline: 380 km overland, connecting Abu Dhabi fields to Fujairah port on the Gulf of Oman, pumping 1.5 million barrels a day out of a total production of 3.4 million barrels a day, and bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s a categorical imperative for Abu Dhabi to ally itself with the Empire of Chaos dementia because of those $1.4 trillion already committed. Jebel Ali needs to operate full tilt because the UAE is a key node of the – for the moment defunct – IMEC: the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, which is in fact the Israel corridor between Europe and India using the UAE.
The AD Ports Group in Abu Dhabi holds a 30-year concession at Aqaba: the only cargo port in Jordan. The DP World from Dubai holds a 30-year, $800 million concession at Tartus in Syria, in the key Eastern Mediterranean. This means that the UAE is a serious maritime player in key corridors between Asia and Europe.
As it stands, the UAE for all practical purposes is being expelled from the already-in-trouble IMEC. Precious cargo to and from Asia is not going via Jebel Ali any ; it’s going through ports in Oman, into Saudi Arabia (rail freight corridor to Jordan, then onward to Syria, Turkey and Europe) and/or Qatar (overland transit to Saudi). A completely different logistics corridor.
Jebel Ali so far was profiting from branding itself as the premier, inescapable West Asia transshipment hub, extracting precious, easy rent from $1 trillion in annual trade. This business model is collapsing – as much as the Dubai bling bling money laundering machine.
The murky role of Pakistan
The Empire of Chaos was counting – and may still count – on using the predictable refusal by Tehran to enter indirect “negotiations” in Pakistan about the war to justify the next “final blow” bombing offensive.
None of that seems to be disturbing Tehran’s meticulous planning, as the main objectives remain immutable: to create a new geopolitical and security equation in West Asia; maintain Iran’s deterrence – acquired under fire; and establish dominance over both the Arab petro-monarchies and the death cult in West Asia.
UAE wants to enter the war? From Tehran’s perspective, that’s swell: the perfect, complete justification for the destruction of all their key infrastructure.
It was than predictable that the 15-point plan Team Trump minions presented to Iran via Pakistan would be D.O.A. After all it was an imposed capitulation: a surrender document disguised as “negotiation”.
To start with, Tehran refused to talk again to Heckle and Jeckle, the pathetic Witkoff-Kushner duo, described by Iranian diplomats as backstabbers. The duo could not even understand Iran’s generous proposals outlined in Geneva and translated by Omani diplomats into pidgin English.
So the narrative had to instantly change: the new White House non-plan plan would be discussed by Vice-President J.D. Vance, who would in theory meet with Iran Parliament speaker Ghalibaf this weekend in Islamabad.
Then the whole thing collapsed. Essentially because it’s impossible to trust this current Pakistani military junta.
The Baboon of Barbaria claimed that Iran offered him 8 tankers full of crude oil. They were sailing under the Pakistani flag, and that’s how they crossed the Strait of Hormuz. Only then they were “offered” to the Americans. It’s no wonder that Iran has now suspended oil transit to Pakistan through the Strait of Hormuz.
What else is new? Langley’s top asset in Pakistan is Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir – part of the regime change gang that deposed former PM Imran Khan and threw him in jail. Munir has Trump on speed dial.
They had recently spoken in detail about Iran – with Munir instrumentalizing the back channels between Tehran and the Witkoff-Kushner duo, everything enveloped in the subterfuge of “negotiations”.
Munir is rabidly anti-Shi’ite; nearly a Salafi-jihadi in his mind; and very close to Saudi Arabia – which wants Trump to go all out on Iran.
Dire prospects for the GCC
All that happened after Russian intel channels passed verified info to the IRGC that the Epstein Syndicate’s “quick” war centered on regime change in Tehran was totally backed by Saudi Arabia, with dodgy funding released by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.
Now compound it with the fact that most missiles fired by the Epstein Syndicate only have a range of 200 to 300 miles. Translation: they were all fired upon Iran from GCC petro-monarchies.
And that bring us to what may lie ahead, in extremely nasty terms, for the GCC – with the possible exception of Qatar and Oman: both understood which way the wind is blowing, and have already declared to be essentially neutral, and not a base for attacks on Iran.
Kuwait is a fiction. It may eventually be absorbed by Saudi Arabia or – historical poetic justice – Iraq. No other options apply.
Bahrain hosts a massive U.S. military base that was destroyed in real time. If the Shi’ite majority makes a move, with help from Iran, it could be eventually absorbed into the Iranian sphere. The other option is a de facto annexation by Saudi Arabia.
The UAE led by Zionist-aligned gangster MbZ is a bling bling project in extinction. The Dubai model is already dead – port, financial scams, world capital of money laundering. It might be eventually absorbed by Oman, back to the situation in 1971.
Iraqi scholars, with their keen sense of History, are already merrily debating that Bahrain – which belonged to Iran – will eventually go back to Iran; Kuwait will go to Iraq; the Emirates will return to Oman, a return to its origins; and Saudi Arabia might take Qatar as well.
Saudi Arabia of course is the joker in the pack. It’s quite telling that Riyadh is not among the triad that has been trying to position as mediators between the U.S. and Iran: Turkiye, Egypt and Pakistan.
Discounting all the stratospheric spin, MbS did encourage the U.S. to go after Iran before the war, and may be considering entering the war now: if that happens, Iran will simply destroy the whole Saudi energy infrastructure, side by side with the Houthis blocking the Red Sea for any possible Saudi energy exports.
As it stands, a clear possibility is that the GCC may become instrumental in the international financial system implosion, as it will have to pull massive funds out of the U.S. market to be able to bet on their shaky survival.
China is watching all of the above with bated breath. Beijing has been than aware that the fall of Assad severed the absolutely critical overland node connecting the New Silk Roads/BRI to the Eastern Mediterranean.
China was betting heavily on the trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq and Syria, which would be a beauty in terms of bypassing imperial naval chokepoints. Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz though should be the beginning of a geoeconomic counterpunch.
After all Iran has just institutionalized the petroyuan as the payment system at the Hormuz toll booth. As 80% of its oil revenue was already being settled in yuan through CIPS, the system now includes shipping fees, simultaneously bypassing the U.S. dollar, U.S. sanctions and SWIFT – and that in the most consequential chokepoint of the global economy.
The UAE is missing the boat that really matters. What’s in effect now is the rewriting of the global operating system (OS). And the new OS runs on petroyuan.
