Kot so nekateri napovedovali – te vojne proti Iranu ne bo odločalo orožje ali nafta, ampak voda. Zmagal bo tisti, ki bo odločal o tem, ali in katere zalivske države bodo imele dostop do pitne vojne. Zalivske države imajo vse razloge, da se ne pridružijo vojni ZDA in Izraela proti Iranu. Ne toliko zaradi strahu pred bombardiranjem njihovih nahajališč in terminalov nafte in plina, pa zaradi strahu pred bombardiranjem njihovih ključnih obratov za razsoljevanje vode. 100 nilijonov ljudi v regiji je odvisno od dostopa do te vode in izmed 1.600 obratov je 10 mega obratov za razsoljevanje, ki so lahko strateške tarče. In ZDA so danes – spet – kot prve izpustile hudiča iz steklenice z razstrelitvijo iranskega obrata za razsoljevanje vode.
Two days ago I wrote that the most dangerous signal in this war was not what Iran was hitting but what it was not hitting. Desalination plants. Eight of the ten largest on earth sit on the Arabian Peninsula. One hundred million people drink what they produce. Iran had the coordinates and the capability. It was choosing restraint. The restraint was the weapon. And the hand that held the leash was dead.
The leash just snapped.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi posted on X on March 7 that the United States struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island with missiles launched from its base in Bahrain. He said water supply to 30 villages was cut. His exact words: “The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.”
That sentence is the most dangerous statement issued by any government official since this war began.
No independent verification exists. No satellite imagery. No Pentagon confirmation or denial. CNN, BBC, and Reuters report it as an Iranian accusation. The claim is unverified. That does not make it less dangerous. What matters is not whether the strike happened. What matters is that Iran has publicly framed a desalination attack as an American precedent.
Precedent is permission. Iran struck a US base in Bahrain within hours, framed as retaliation for the desalination hit. Whether the original strike was real or fabricated, the rhetorical architecture for targeting Gulf water plants is now constructed. The thirty one autonomous IRGC commands possess a publicly articulated rationale for striking desalination facilities anywhere in the Gulf.
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