"Iran has decided to shift its policy from defensive to 'fully offensive' due to the deadlock in efforts to agree a permanent end to its war with the United States, a senior Iranian official told Reuters." US President Donald Trump warned Americans "to prepare for continued high fuel prices as the result of the war, while also saying that 'after we finish defeating Iran pretty soon...I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States." NDTV. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Political Deputy Brigadier General Yadollah Javani "told Iranian state media that Iran's actions so far had been defensive but could assume an offensive character in the future." "He added that the armed forces would adopt transformative approaches." ET. Iran has carried out extensive attacks with missiles, drones and fighter jets on Gulf Arab states. wikipedia. "Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the Kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said." "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also carried out military strikes on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported." Reuters. "Iran has accused Qatar of holding three Iranian military pilots who went missing in March after their aircraft were shot down, a claim strongly rejected by Doha." "Iranian state media also reported that a fourth pilot was killed during the same mission targeting a military base in Qatar." NDTV. "Iran yesterday said it has reached an agreement with Oman on a plan to manage the transit of ships through the Strait of Hormuz and the two sides are now working to finalize details for a joint statement," Iranian Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said." newsonair.gov.in. Is Iran offering Oman a share in its efforts to extort a tariff from every tanker that passes through the Strait, thereby dividing the Gulf Arabs and undermining a US deal with Tehran? Trump "has threatened to bomb Oman - a US ally - if it 'gets in the way' of his administration's own talks with Iran." "An IRGC spokesman denied Trump's claim." BBC. "The number one goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a nuclear weapon," said Trump. "Two drones targeted the office of the Kurdistan Regional Government's prime minister and the home of the region's intelligence chief in northern Iraq...but there were no reports of any casualties, the KRG security agency said. The attack was launched from Iranian territory, it said." Reuters. Meanwhile, "Yemen's Mocha port has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks over recent days, the port's director has said." "Mocha is a Red Sea port near the Bab el-Mandab strait, a strategic chokepoint connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and a key route for international shipping." Reuters. Iran's economy is near collapse, with scarcity of food and runaway inflation as the US has blockaded Iranian ports, stopping its oil exports. People are barely able to afford food. referl.org. Iran has gone into survival mode with, "Tehran rationing scarce goods, limiting access to foreign currency, slashing investment and shifting more of the burden onto households while preserving strategic imports and the essential machinery of the state, analysts said." WSJ. After an estimated 36,500 unarmed protesters were murdered by the regime in January (Iran International) it is obvious the regime will sacrifice any number of citizens to ensure its survival. The regime may be trying to set the whole Middle East on fire as a kind of scorched earth policy (Britannica). This is an ideal time to supply handguns and ammunition to protesters. People are most dangerous when they know they are going to die of hunger anyway. Win the war. Minimize suffering. Of Iranians.
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