🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 An IRGC general put a clock on it: two to three more days of American strikes and Iran abandons tit-for-tat for a full-scale offensive phase
Major General Mohsen Rezai's warning reframed the whole night.
Waves of missiles and drones without the reciprocal limits that have held for weeks, if the strikes don't stop.
Larry Johnson's counsel was simple: believe them.
Iran has meant what it said all war.
The escalation pattern is already written into the day.
Overnight the US hit six or seven bridges and tunnels around Bandar Abbas, framed by the Wall Street Journal as severing supply routes to the naval base, plus Yazd deep in the country's center.
Iran answered on the same rung: a desalination plant and power station in Kuwait, with reports of rationing.
These are the exact red lines everyone fixated on in the spring, bridges, water, power, now being crossed at scale while much of the press has moved on.
The live feed never let up.
Two tankers reportedly struck Iranian mines on the Omani route, an unconfirmed anti-ship missile claim against a US supply vessel in the Indian Ocean, and by night's end sirens near Yanbu, the terminal Saudi built specifically to bypass Hormuz, untouched the entire war as far as either of us could recall.
Larry's sharpest new read was Iraqi Kurdistan: Sulaymaniyah got hammered hardest, he believes, because Tehran thinks the Kurds are the someone else Trump keeps saying will fight on the ground.
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