A senior IRGC commander laid out Tehran's endgame in an interview read on air today, and the coldest line deserves the spotlight:
"Neither diplomacy nor war has intrinsic value in itself."
Both are tools, he says, for one goal: restoring deterrence by making aggression carry a cost, compensation included, so nobody attacks, fails, regroups, and returns six months later.
Which means: Iran isn't negotiating an exit, it's pricing an invoice.
Tehran also clarified the UAE mystery, insisting those two missiles targeted a ship, not Emirati soil.
On America's corridor claims, Larry Johnson wants receipts before the victory lap:
"Name the ships. What ports are they going to?"
His sharper point is refineries.
Barrels aren't fungible, and Gulf grades feed the plants configured for diesel and jet fuel, which is why he says the global diesel crisis has already arrived, Europe first, whatever the convoy math says.
And Damascus added a twist: Syria claims it told Israel no Turkish forces were coming, and the strike landed anyway.
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