{"id":53151,"date":"2026-03-03T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=53151"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:45:13","slug":"we-may-just-be-reaching-the-portal-of-the-post-u-s-west-asia-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=53151","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order&#8221;<\/span><\/b><h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ten Hours That Shook West Asia<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Pepe Escobar<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"page-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pescobar\/ten-hours-that-shook-west-asia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-page-thumbsize size-page-thumbsize wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BREAK-BRIKS-02-930x520-600x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contents-holder\" class=\"entry\">\n<section class=\"open\">\n<div class=\"section-holder\">\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong><em>We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Ten hours. That\u2019s what it took for Iran to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>put the Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Permanent Strikes under siege all across the Gulf.<\/li>\n<li>bomb 27 major US military bases, relentlessly \u2013 inflicting extensive damage.<\/li>\n<li>determine that all US and Israeli assets and interests in West Asia are legitimate targets for retaliation.<\/li>\n<li>block the Strait of Hormuz (then unblocked; but free passage only for Russian and Chinese vessels).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Up next: if US warships do not retreat, they will be sunk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The whole drama, predictably, developed as Deceit in the Making. The war was ordered by the leader of a death cult in West Asia, a genocidal psycho who then took refuge in his \u201cWing of Zion\u201d and fled to\u2026 Berlin. His American sidekick, neo-Caligula, a megalomaniacal Narcissus, co-ordered the war from Mar-a-Lago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Their spectacular success on Day One: to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in a decapitation strike. And to kill scores of girls \u2013 100+ and counting \u2013 in an elementary school in southern Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Predictably, this was also a remix of the assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s Sayyed Nasrallah in Beirut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">During indirect \u201cnegotiations\u201d in Oman the Trump 2.0 team required Tehran to clarify an offer that required some final fine-tuning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al Busaidi confirmed that Iran, for the first time, agreed to \u201cnever\u201d accumulate nuclear material for a bomb; maintain zero stockpiles of enriched material; agree that existing stockpiles would be down-blended; and allow full IAEA verification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The meeting took place in Tehran on Saturday morning, uniting top members of the Iranian leadeship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Epstein Syndicate duly bombed the meeting, killing top officials plus Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The Empire of Chaos does not do negotiations: it uses them as a weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Yet there was no instant collapse leading to regime change. Less than half an hour after being struck, the Tehran leadership launched a stunning, lightning-fast, coordinated counterpunch on a massive scale, in 24-hour continuous launch mode, thus establishing the parameters of escalation as well as resilience supremacy on the battlefield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">For instance, Iranian tactics are now very different compared to the 12-day war. In the second wave against Bahrain, they used Shahed-136 kamikaze drones only after a massive ballistic missile barrage which completely bewildered US defense systems. The result: scores of expensive interceptors expended too early. The drones only came later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_13\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Only on Day 1 Iran fired over 1,200 missiles and drones. Tehran has tens of thousands of missiles and drones in stock. US interceptors are about to run dry in a matter of days. Each THAAD costs $15 million. The math is definitely not leaning the imperial way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_14\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>From martyrdom to revenge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_15\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Iran going after US assets in Dubai is a masterful strategic play \u2013 linked to destroying sheltering US military personnel and\/or clandestine CIA digs. All those tacky Dubai symbols of bling bling opulence are on fire; Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab, Palm Jumeirah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_16\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">As\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanaka86\/status\/2028051580134834464\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanaka86\/status\/2028051580134834464\" rel=\"noopener\">correctly argued here,<\/a>\u00a088% of the population of Dubai is foreign. Apart from being the world capital of money laundering, this is most of all a special economic zone with a flag, now running the risk of a bank run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_17\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">After all, the UAE does not produce anything \u2013 as in productive capitalism; it\u2019s a tax-free service economy built around bling bling opulence and safety (now gone).<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_18\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Dubai also happens to have enormous leverage over neo-Caligula \u2013 as in \u201cTrump coins\u201d, personal investments, donations to the Board of Peace, a.k.a. Board of War. Aviation is 27% of Dubai\u2019s GDP \u2013 and 18% of the UAE\u2019s. Dubai airport in the dark is an absolute disaster. Mega-airlines like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways \u2013 complete with their mega-airports \u2013 are key vehicles\/nodes of the global transportation matrix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_19\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Dubai in the dark is a very bad business proposition for Trump. There\u2019s no question MbZ is already on the phone begging for a ceasefire. Moreover, Tehran also made clear that energy giants Chevron and ExxonMobil are legitimate targets. So it\u2019s no wonder neo-Caligula already wanted a ceasefire on Day 1, communicated via Italian diplomatic channels to Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_20\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Whatever the torrents of speculation on whether the genocidal psycho in Tel Aviv did force neo-Caligula to go to war when his Invincible Armada was still not ready, the fact is the Pentagon lost the strategic initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_21\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The script is being written in Tehran; that\u2019s going to be a war of attrition, where Tehran has gamed every possible scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_22\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">So here\u2019s how it all developed, in a flash. Decapitation strike. Council of Experts convened in minutes. IRGC: \u201cmaximum force\u201d response within the hour, unleashed over the death cult + petro-chihuahuas. Succession mechanism: in place. Command structure: in place. No regime change. Zero imperial strategic dominance. From martyrdom to revenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_23\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The whole Global South is watching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_24\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Total strategic rupture<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_25\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">According to several IRGC sources, Ayatollah Khamenei had everything prepared in excruciating detail via a series of directives. He had instructed Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Security Council, and selected leadership members not only on how Iran could resist to the Epstein Syndicate firepower but also any assassination attempts, including on himself. Khamenei was killed alongside Ali Shamkhani, the former National Security Council secretary, and IRGC Commander Mohammed Pakpour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_26\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Khamenei named no less than four layers of succession for each key military command and government role. No wonder all crucial decisions after the decapitation were taken in record time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_27\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The genocidal\/murderous American-Israeli duo has no idea what\u2019s coming. They managed to affront the whole of the Shi\u2019ite world \u2013 not to mention hundreds of millions of Sunni Muslims as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_28\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Total strategic rupture does not even begin to describe it: we have reached the absolute point of no return between Washington and Tehran. Instead of this childish notion of regime change, which only braindead fanatical Zionists can entertain, the killing of Khamenei is consolidating a national consensus; legitimizing a no holds barred retaliation; and unleashing a multi-front confrontation stretching from the Gulf to the Levant.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"book-unit alignright premblock book-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0978813820\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/514BiChCuYL.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1_29\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Iran\u2019s immediate tactics are crystal clear: to saturate Israeli air defences and trigger a massive Interceptor Crisis. That is bound to compel Israeli generals to beg neo-Caligula for a ceasefire \u2013 even as Iran will not cease to pick Israel\u2019s infrastructure and economy apart, possibly causing the death cult to crack in a matter of days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_30\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Russia and China meanwhile will be working in the shade to ensure Iran\u2019s defense network remains intact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_31\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">If West Asia gas and oil stops flowing only for a few days, all ominous bets are off when it comes to the global economy. Iran has gamed all scenarios and can apply and release pressure at will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_32\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Global South will be learning all the lessons of how the Iranian leadership displays solidarity and clear objectives while forced on an unprecedented fight on several fronts against the imperial colossus \u2013 and that after 47 years of relentless sanctions. This kind of resistance, in itself, is already a miracle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_33\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Now the path may be opened towards the end of American military footprint across West Asia \u2013 something envisioned by a lineage of martyrs, from Soleimani and Nasrallah to Khamenei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_34\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order, where that ghastly death cult with its pathetic intolerant God will be strategically wallowing in the mire, its deterrence in tatters, consumed with paranoia while fighting multiple instance of asymmetrical pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pescobar\/ten-hours-that-shook-west-asia\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pescobar\/ten-hours-that-shook-west-asia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Hours That Shook West Asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}