The day was quiet until Mohsen Rezaei sat for an interview.
Then one of the most powerful men in Iran read out an escalation ladder, rung by rung.
Neighbors who enforce the sanctions get one warning before their interests get hit.
Next rung: American economic assets across the region, which Tehran says it has deliberately spared while striking bases.
Top rung: nothing leaves the Persian Gulf at all.
Not through Hormuz, not through Fujairah, not through the Saudi East-West line.
Larry Johnson says the doctrine is already written:
"Iran is going to treat it the same way."
A country that enforces the siege has joined the war, no different from the countries that lent runways on February 28.
Buried in the same interview sat the line historians may keep:
"possessing a nuclear bomb is more effective than hundreds of F-35s"
Treaty membership bought Iran an attack, and Larry notes Majlis members now openly discuss leaving the NPT, which he'd read as the tell.
Meanwhile the money keeps finding doors.
Baghdad just won tanker passage through the strait by asking nicely, and Qatar is reportedly moving gas through Iranian pipelines.
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