Washington cannot invade Iran nor can they bomb it indiscriminately those days are gone. This explains Iran's "bold" actions, which amount to: "Treat us as equal humans or bring it on - we got our rights, too, and we can and will pursue them."
Those who misunderstood the import of Trump's war "would not last very long" statement also fail to see two things: warfare is changing, and also war of the type Iran would get involved in is inherently different from what the West is used to.
What forced Trump's unintended admission was Iranian technology: the shooting down of a US drone has proven that Iran has military parity and even military superiority over the US.
That's a bold statement, but true:
Iran does not have the technology or ability to fight US imperialism, for example, in Honduras or in helping the Chinese defend their eastern seaboard, or in any other cases which are totally irrelevant to Iran. Iran has military superiority over the US only when it comes to defending Iran.
Iran does not have to defend (anymore) the whole country, like Afghanistan or Iraq had to, and certainly not all four oceans - the geographic constriction which is the Strait of Hormuz gives Iran an advantage which can never be pried away by imperialists. They can defend this tiny plot of water with cheap speedboats; the weapons required to take down iron warships are now readily available it is not 1919 anymore; Iran realizes that the invincibility of the English (and US) navy is a statement based on suppositions and beliefs which Iran could not care less about, as they only care about controlling their own area and not the territory of others.
Furthermore, as top media The Hill wrote, "Iran is becoming a drone superpower". Nice, but not quite: Iran already IS a drone superpower, both in using them and shooting them down.
Last week the US claimed it destroyed an Iranian drone, which Iran denied, and that they even allegedly used a new "jamming technology" to do so. Who knows who is telling the truth, and why should we care? This is not a race, nor an all-out conflict where total kills matter Iran was able to shoot down a US drone, and could surely do it again, and that means technological parity for a key weapon in the fight to patrol the Strait of Hormuz has been achieved. Obviously, Washington only made these claims because they desperately want the world to keep believing that they are the only drone superpower, but there clearly are at least two now.
This was not by accident, nor was it quick in arriving: Just as Cuba is a medical superpower due to abundant investment in that area, Iran's decades of prioritizing engineering studies has made it dominant in the region. It can now reverse engineer Western hardware and software with success similar to Chinese state-owned enterprises with Western goods. Drones, and not doctors, are helping Iran's regional allies fight off the current Western and Zionist wars, but Cuba's doctors do give it more global soft power.
An Iranian flag is calmly flapping atop a British ship accused of criminality, and there is nothing London can do about it.
The West has brought this crisis upon themselves because they are murderously blockading Iran, as part of their capitalist-imperialist plan to dominate the Muslim world and its oil resources, rather than work cooperatively, tolerantly and with the goal of mutual benefit. This Iranophobic warfare has been going on for 40 years, but the last month shows just how powerful Iran has made itself during that time span.
This column debunked the Western mainstream media propaganda of the events which produced the historic seizure of a British-flagged ship by Iran. Part two will examine Iran's role as the new maritime police of the Persian Gulf, and how the West is likely to respond.
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