Iran Believes That More War Is Coming After The Midterms, And They Are Feverishly Preparing For It

Iran Believes That More War Is Coming After The Midterms, And They Are Feverishly Preparing For It

Michael Snyder

The war in the Middle East has been essentially put on pause until the midterm elections in the United States are over, but once we get to that point Iran is expecting the fighting to go to an entirely new level. So Iran is using this temporary lull in the action to get fully prepared. Ground forces are being trained, defenses are being strengthened, new missiles are being produced, and rallies are being held to bolster public support for the coming conflict. This time around, the Iranians don’t intend to just be on the defensive. They have openly warned that they could conduct ground incursions into neighboring countries, because they believe that this would give them even more leverage with the Trump administration. But if the Iranians get too aggressive, that could set off a chain of events that nobody will be able to control.

In recent weeks, President Trump has repeatedly stated that his administration will “make a decision” on Iran in the not too distant future.

Everyone knows that he is referring to military action, and he just said it again…

“We’ll make a decision on Iran very soon,” he concludes, amid reports of discussions about a resumption of fighting before Israel’s October 27 election and the United States’ November 3 midterm elections.

Trump has made similar comments repeatedly in the past, without following through with renewed strikes.

Last week, he said the US would not attack Iran before the US midterms.

I could be wrong, but at this stage I think that there won’t be any additional airstrikes in Iranian territory until after the midterms.

However, once the midterms are over it appears that the U.S. and Israel intend to absolutely hammer Iran.

The Iranians are fully convinced of this, and according to the Wall Street Journal they are in full war preparation mode…

Iran is fortifying its defenses, rallying loyalists and threatening a wider, harsher response against the U.S. and its Gulf allies as it prepares for potential American attacks after the midterms and seeks to deter them.

Iranian officials have warned publicly and in private conversations with regional officials that the Islamic Republic will respond with further escalation across the Middle East if the U.S. launches new strikes.

If fighting is going to inevitably erupt again, the Iranians don’t just want to absorb strikes and fire off missiles in return.

Instead, they want to go on the offensive.

One of the options that is reportedly being considered is launching “ground incursions into neighboring countries”…

Tehran has also suggested it could launch ground incursions into neighboring countries and target regional data centers and communications infrastructure.

Iran has the largest army in the Middle East by a wide margin.

With reserves, they can muster a force of more than a million fighting men.

That is one of their most important competitive advantages, and they are thinking about using it.

A ground incursion across southern Iraq to grab Kuwait would be an extremely shocking move.

But if the Iranians were to commit a couple hundred thousand troops to such an effort, there wouldn’t be much that Iraq, Kuwait or the U.S. would be able to do about it.

The U.S. has a few thousand Marines in the Middle East, but that wouldn’t be nearly enough to stop an Iranian ground invasion.

The Iranians are also strengthening positions around their most important nuclear sites…

Iran has also reinforced protection around its nuclear sites and other security-related bunkers. Last month, it built passive defense measures such as makeshift dirt mounds around its Pickaxe Mountain and Natanz nuclear sites to impede any attempted raid by ground forces, according to Vantor satellite images analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.

Iranian officials are touting their efforts. The country’s airports, seaports and power plants “have prepared for wartime conditions,” installing shelters and backup supplies to continue operating in a crisis, Brig. Gen. Gholamreza Jalali, the official in charge of the country’s contingency plans, told reporters at the end of September.

The Iranian nuclear program is the core issue of this war, and the Iranians have no intention of backing down.

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