Using fast speed boats equipped with missiles and torpedoes Revolutionary Guard commando units sink twenty cargo carrying vessels and warn that any oil tankers heading for the Straights of Hormuz would be sunk. All shipment of oil out of the Persian Gulf comes to a halt.
In less than a week the supply of oil to the world market drops by 30% to 40%. Gasoline prices double as governments scramble to implement rationing. Speed limits are introduced as blackouts become common. Governments in Europe, Japan, and China order industries to open only three days a week. Price of oil passes $250 per barrel.
Operation Iran Secularization escalates as Iran refuses to surrender unconditionally and America continues to bomb Iran, taking out its dams, power stations, water treatment plants, industrial estates, communication systems, and any military targets still left standing. No oil or gas installations are bombed.
Three weeks after the start of Operation Iran Secularization, with much of Iran devastated, a nuclear power plant in the United States experiences a massive "accident" and four million Americans are exposed to deadly radioactive emissions. In response all nuclear power plants in the United States are shut down and all radioactive material is secured. The next day the Pentagon orders no weaponry with depleted uranium be used in Iran. Massive energy shortages cripple the American economy. The Dow Jones crashes below 4,000 and the dollar loses half its value. Gold reaches above $2,000 an once.
Three months after the start of Operation Iran Secularization the Chinese discretely inform the Pentagon that nuclear tipped missiles have been deployed in Iran. The Bush Administration is forced to resign and the 2008 Presidential elections are moved forward to 2007. The transition administration declares an unconditional ceasefire and begins to withdraw all its forces out of the Middle East, including Iraq.
On the surface America may have been defeated but in reality the objective had been achieved, the destruction of Iran and Iraq, and halting their rise to power in the Middle East.
(Prof. Cyrus Mossaddegh, MBA, Phd. was a candidate for the recent presidential elections in Iran.)
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