March 28, 2026
Iran Losing Friends
Timothy Birdnow
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vowed to join the fight against Iran after being bombed more than even Israel by the Benighted Beelzebub (if they call us the Great Satan I'll call Iran the BB).
Iran has at least convinced the UAE that Iran is an existential threat and needs to be dealt with for good.
I suspect other Arab states in the region may feel the same.
And if these states join a "coalition of the willing" to kick the Ayatollahs out then it will happen Iran won't be able to ship so much as a pair of shoelaces out if the Gulf states decide to stop them. (Yes, they can ship via the Gulf of Oman (the outlet into the Arabian Sea) but that wouldn't be all that had to blockade and shipping oil out of there would be much harder than out of the Arabian Gulf (formerly Persian Gulf). I would add Iran just has a small portion of their seacoast on the Omani sector.
We can squeeze the life right out of Iran economically if Oman should decide to shut the Strait of Hormuz down to Iran and her allies as well.
Bear in mind Iran is losing huge amounts of money daily and they won't be able to endure this for too much longer.
At any rate Iran isn't making any friends, and it's just a matter of time before they have no choice but fold.
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Something that has occurred to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone, is this: at what point does Iran get so desperate that it decides it has no other option than to start using its nukes? THAT'S the point where the fertilizer REALLY hits the impeller, as an old musician friend of mine used to like to say.
They still seem to be able to launch the odd ICBM, and what if one of them has a "hot" tip on it?
They still seem to be able to launch the odd ICBM, and what if one of them has a "hot" tip on it?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 28, 2026 09:20 PM (+oLFx)
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That is indeed a danger, although we hope their nuclear material is at least buried under rubble. But this was a risky operation from the get-go, but one that had to be done.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 29, 2026 08:58 AM (oflqW)
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