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Khamenei’s Son Says No to Nuclear Deal
Khamenei’s son, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, said there will be no nuclear deal. He has doomed Iran’s oil industry and his people;
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On Thursday, 30 April, Khamenei’s son had a Dubai state television anchor read a defiant statement that said he would defend Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. The son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, also said in his statement that the only place Americans belonged in the Persian Gulf is “at the bottom of its waters” and that a “new chapter” is being written in the region’s history. Khamenei also referred to the U.S. as the “Great Satan,” an insult used by Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The 56- year-old has not been seen in public after the killing of his father in the Iran war initial airstrikes.
The previous weekend, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, offered an end to attacks in the Gulf the war if the U.S. would end its blockade of Iranian ports. In that offer Iran would control the Strait of Hormuz and any talks about Iran’s nuclear program would be held sometime in the future. That offer was despite President Trump’s insistence that Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, should end its search for nuclear weapons by disposing of its enriched Uranium stockpile and verify the end of the program with inspections by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
The takeaways of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s statement:
He is the new Supreme Leader of Iran.
He has the approval of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and that of the regular army.
He is willing to destroy Iran’s oil industry and the Iranian economy by continuing the war.
CENTCOM is using the U.S. Navy blockade to halt tankers from getting out to sea from all Iranian ports. The Navy is also stopping Iran’s shadow fleet of tankers as far from Iran as the Indian Ocean. As a result, Iran’s economy and its oil industry and the global economy remain under pressure as Iran maintains its hold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of all crude oil is transported. On Thursday 30 April, the benchmark for oil, Brent crude, traded as high as $126 per barrel. That shock to oil supplies and prices puts........