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Pepe Escobar: ABSOLUTE MUST READ
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🇮🇷| Never seen before speech by Martyr Qassem Soleimani, months before his assassination, on May 2019.
He had predicted the 2026 Ramadan war between Iran-US and talked about using the Strait of Hormoz as leverage.
I fully translated his speech:
"Against this scale and magnitude, this gathering [of enemies]…. ? Can we emerge victorious in this war?
Is this not one of those same crises in the heart of every deviation where God ordains a great victory for the Revolution? The world is different, it is larger and uncontrollable. No one can say, 'I control the world.'
If they [the enemy] wants to confront our oil sales, well, that will cause an increase in oil prices. Secondly, every incident that occurs, every pressure reflected upon us, results in pressure upon others.
We have 1,600-1,700 kilometers of coastline. The supertankers carrying oil from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the UAE must, by necessity, pass by these islands.
Imagine a person sitting here; you are passing food right in front of him—how easy it is to seize that food.
When our officials said, 'If our oil is not sold, no one else’s oil will be sold either,' this was not a bluff. This is doable, it is possible.
“Closing the Strait of Hormuz...” regarding the statement made in Hamedan, you must realize that in the very places where you imagine we are not, we are at the closest point to you.
It’s impossible that there was ever a day where we didn't think about this. Don't think [otherwise], our most important enemies—how could it be possible that we haven't thought about it? We have certainly provided the appropriate mechanisms.
All these forces they have brought into the Persian Gulf… and for what? These tall buildings that show their grandeur on television, these high-rises in the UAE and many other places… they are made of glass.
One can start a war, but they know if this war breaks out... Iran has established a garrison facing every one of their garrisons and possesses power.
They know, and they declare it themselves: The asymmetric power of the Islamic Republic is incomparable to other powers.
In fact, before they even entered this line, we were ready for war. We are ready to defend this nation at these very levels, with dignity and power.
If you stand against our religion, we will stand against your entire world with all our might. What is our religion? Our religion is the ‘Islamic’ Republic. Islam which within it is the republic, an embodied religion.
This was proved in the Islamic world—when things shifted in Egypt. This awareness exists well within the Islamic world: Any incident surrounding the Islamic Republic affects the entire Islamic world: for Sunni Islam, for Shiite Islam, and for political Islam.
Right here beside us, in the west and south of our country, America entered one place with more than 50,000 soldiers and another with more than a thousand.
When they entered, even the US reserve forces entered the Persian Gulf scene, the result was what that foolish man [Trump] when he said and showed: They came Iraq with the airplane lights off, in the middle of the desert, and in the dark tent [referring to Trump’s unannounced 2018 visit to Ein Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq], they didn't dare turn on a light.
They guided the POTUS with the light of a mobile phone, they took him and his wife there while keeping the news completely secret. When he reached the US, he showed the dark tent.
Right now, the signs of the enemy's defeat are completely visible. These signs are not few. To the extent that the enemy suffers from terror and anxiety… that level of enemy terror and anxiety is unimaginable to us.
We, with certainty in God and trust in God... in our calculations, we cannot live a life without God in every calculation. We have nothing else. Our power is faith in God. Our power is depending on God's victory. We live by this belief.”
@FotrosResistancee
