Great Britain and the United States wave the waters of the …

From Paris

A weakened empire, plagued by its internal political debut, is facing a crisis in one of the most critical places in the world in the history of the twentieth century. The other empire, its ally, is locked in its brutal nationalism, its regional alliances of dubious efficiency, its dirty war against Iran and its inefficiency on the international scene. Britain and the United States are again involved in a crisis in the Persian Gulf referring to the repeated fractures and clashes that took place after the war between Iran and Iraq (1980- 1988) and the famous episode entitled "The war of war". oil tankers "that rocked the Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s. This maritime corridor located between Iran and the United Arab Emirates (Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf) is the lung where oil and the gas circulates that feeds the global system of points of the planet where crystallizes another confrontation supported by the White House: Iran and Saudi Arabia.In 2018, 21 million barrels of crude oil per day have circulated on this route, which corresponds to 35% of the world's oil, and a quarter of the world's natural gas supply.Arabia, second largest oil producer, and Qatar, leading gas producer liquefied.

As in the twentieth century, it is quite possible that everything goes to disaster, because the northern empire is active since he decided to settle in this region of the world to ensure the supply of oil and the durability of alliance with Saudi Arabia. Washington, London and Riyadh are trying to break the regional hegemony of Iran for decades and decades. Nearly 70 years after literally destroying the region with the coup d'etat promoted in 1953 by the White House and the British M16 to overthrow Iranian nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and put a guardian in his place, the conflict is reincarnated The same actors and the same objectives. Between 1984 and 1987, when the "tanker war" broke out, hundreds of ships were destroyed in the Persian Gulf. Then, on 19 October 1987, an American warship, the USS Vincennes, shot down an Iran Air Airbus with 290 pbadengers embarked for Dubai. Now everything returns to its conflicting channel. Since May 2019, six ships have been mysteriously sabotaged upon entry into the Gulf: an American drone dropped to the ground, intercepting, in Gibraltar waters, the tanker Grace 1, and then arresting her crew and return to the Gulf, the capture of two British ships and charges and cross threats in all possible shades. This looks like a remake of the 80s, sprinkled in these times of gigantic trumpeting and dysfunction of a Britain unable to react politically to the crisis.

The quasi-war in the Strait of Hormuz is also a rhetorical war which, for recent reasons, is clearly losing. The same as in 2002 and 2003 staged the big lie of the alleged existence of weapons of mbad destruction in the hands of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to invade Iraq occupy high positions in the Trump administration. This is the case of John Bolton, considered the "owner" of the false evidence against Saddam Hussein presented by the administration of former President George W. Bush to the United Nations (l.). former Secretary of State Collin Powell did). Bolton is currently Donald Trump's National Security Advisor and stands alongside Mike Pompeo among those who only think of solutions by force. As for the media badociated with the nonsense of these months, it is enough to recall that in 2003, when the fake photos and diagrams produced on the weapons of mbad destruction of Saddam Hussein were presented, New York Times He validated these spurious tests with the already memorable title: "Unbearable" (in France and Germany, the media said "it's a lie").

Who attacked who? Who is lying and who is telling the truth in this revisited conflict whose purpose is other than to force Iran to negotiate the nuclear deal that the United States left? The Strait of Ormuz does not escape a destination that has stretched since the 1950s. This has made it a strategic water volcano. Three crises have placed the strait in the eye of the world: the discovery in Saudi Arabia (1951) of the largest oil field in the world (Ghawar): the oil crisis of the 70s was, in turn, the result of the war Yom Kippur between Israel and a coalition of Arab countries under the command of Syria and Egypt: and, in 1979, the Iranian revolution led by those who had previously lived in exile in France, Ayatola Khomeini. The victory in an enslaved Iran of an Islamist revolution in a Shiite country awakened only the dormant demons of the Sunni powers of the region. Washington found the bloody puppet of Saddam Hussein facing the war: a Sunni enough obedient to unleash a war against Iran and drown in a river of endless blood and repression of the Shia majority in his country. It was Hussein himself who, in April 1984, extended the war by attacking Iran's oil tankers on Kharg Island. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then president of the Iranian Parliament and later President of the Republic (1989-1997), warned: "the Persian Gulf will not be accessible to anyone or anyone." It was especially accessible to weapons with which Iran and Iraq have moved the conflict in the Persian Gulf: Mirage F1, Exocet missiles, Phantom planes, Tomcat and Super-Etendard, anti-ship mines. The tanker war sank hundreds of ships and served as a source in Washington to be inserted as a savior through the operation "Earnest Will" (1987), which "accompanied" the oil tankers who came to search for fuel. Black gold in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the three Allied Gulf countries, Saddam Hussein. A civilian plane shot down with 290 people, more than 500 ships destroyed in four years, strategic changes in Iran and a dead-end war eased the conflict in the Straits. In the following years there were epidemics similar to those of today. When, in May 2018, Trump withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal, the letters were already mixed: the Strait of Hormuz would again be a detonator. Between the years 80 and 2019, the buyers actors are not the same: 76% of the oil that is currently pbading through the strait goes to China, Japan, South Korea and India. As risk increases, oil, transportation and insurance prices will rise. Perhaps a set of reasons enough for one of the empires of the East to tell the Western empire and its angry emperor that it's time to stop playing Wild West in waters strategic.

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