Total darkness — I do not know how it will end, if it ends at all. The scenario in which the President of the United States carries out the ultimatum he issued to the mullah regime in Iran could lead the region into a state it has never experienced before. What lies behind Saudi Arabia’s decisions, and why Mohammed bin Salman will never attack Iran.
US President Donald Trump gave Iran an ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. If Trump carries out his threat and attacks Iran’s power facilities after 48 hours, then the Iranians will also carry out their threats and attack the energy infrastructure in the Gulf states — especially in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
In such a situation, it will simply go dark. This would be the first time something like this has happened in the Persian Gulf. At the same time, Saudi Arabia’s weakness under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is on display. Yet even in such a case, the Saudis will not respond. They will never respond. If they were to respond, they would be seen as cooperating with the Zionist regime, as allies against Iran. The Saudis simply will not do that. Now everything depends on Trump — whether he will carry out his threat.
In this context, I see the historic scenario toward which the Middle East is heading. In my assessment, the Iranians will not surrender. They will not back down, and I believe Trump will carry out his threat. Then we are on the path to escalation. We are moving toward something we have never experienced before: complete darkness. We are not talking about Beirut, where people are used to such things, but about the Gulf states. Gulf states without electricity — that is a new development. Personally, I do not know how this will end, if it ends at all.
As mentioned, the President of the United States issued an unprecedented threat against Iran. In an especially sharp post published on his social network, Truth Social, at 1:44 a.m. Israel time on the night between Saturday and Sunday, Trump gave a 48-hour ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and threatened a severe strike against Iran’s energy infrastructure.
“If Iran does not fully open the Strait of Hormuz without threat within 48 hours from this very moment, the United States will attack and destroy its various power plants,” Trump wrote on the social network. He also emphasized in capital letters that the American attack “will begin first with the largest power plant!”
In response, a spokesman for the central “Khatam al-Anbiya” headquarters, which oversees Iran’s military operations, declared that “if Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, then all energy, information technology, and seawater desalination facilities belonging to the United States and the [Israeli] regime in the region will be attacked,” according to a statement published by the Iranian news agency Fars.
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