re: #411 Varek Raith

Question on Iran. Didn’t the Chinese sell them some effective anti-ship missiles (silkworms?), recently? Would Iran use them in the event of a Coalition blockade?

Not sure if they’re a newer generation or not, or whether Iran’s trying top produce them domestically. An embargo on their gasoline, though, wouldn’t require we get anywhere near their installations unless we wanted to. Slap sanctions on the firms carrying it to them - once they realize there’s no profit to it, they’ll knock it off double-quick.

Oh, and I stand by the proposal to cut the power as well. The motor fuel embargo alone would make things unpleasant, but let the lights go out, too, and the regime - unable to muster or even contact the peasantry in the countryside - would find themselves in deep, deep kimchi.