Iran's Threats to Saudi Critical Infrastructure

Iran has the missile and cyber capabilities to significantly damage Saudi Arabia's oil, desalination, electricity, and other important facilities. CSIS's Seth Jones explains how the United States can help protect Saudi Arabia's critical infrastructure and deescalate the situation. #Satellite #CSIS #Iran

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[stevearyan]

The US is the big elephant in the room.

[annjsm]

It's the US who's adding to the tension not Iran. Iran is only (finally) responding.

[aritakalo]

Well de-escalating takes two sides. One can't expect Iran to be willing to de-escalate, if USA and it's partners aren't willing to de-escalate. Unilateral stand down is great way to invite everyone to bully ones country to oblivion. No sane leadership would agree to unilateral de-escalation in situation where there is tensions due to two sets of colliding interested parties.


As said in video: One can't just give unreasonable demands and then expect the other side to go "sure why not". We are talking country with population of 80 million. They will have national interests and won't just unilaterally and unconditionally capitulate.

[robertwalsh]

A country 300 hundred years old telling a civilization 7000 years old how to live.. What a joke

[brianbob]

We need to deescalate and Saudi needs to learn to play nice with its neighbors.

[mistergeopolitics]

This is just one of Iran's many options. If attacked, Iran can focus on targeting & destroying Saudi Arabia's and the Persian Gulf Arab states oil facilities & vital infrastructure. This will cause the price of oil to triple or quadruple overnight, instantly crippling the world economy, causing millions to become unemployed overnight.

[M-fc]

Funny how the same exact locations were targeted!?! The irony...

[MA-rpiu]

Iran don't need to attack Saudis oil factories as they are our brothers, like other humans in the world. our first weapon is logic and wisdom and this is the reason of being 7000 years of existence.

[mistergeopolitics]

Iran is willing to negotiate however the problem is that Trump doesn't want to negotiate. Rather Trump only wants to dictate terms. The problem with that is that Iran will not yield to bullying tactics or gangstrism. According to economists, in less than 2 years Iran's economy is set to grow by 4-5%. The sanctions have failed.

[sparXKuijper]

Nothing like false-flag foreshadowing...

[sassa]

It is the US policy of maximum pressure that has created this problem. The US should deescalate the situation by stopping its behaviour that has led the Middle East to the brink of another war.

[FORTHEBY_BY]

Well, that’s SAUDIA ARABIAS problem. No more war, USA!!

[mistergeopolitics]

Iran would only do this if it were attacked first. Iran will merely respond, not initiate, however the fact of the matter is that Iran has a sharp blade on the jugular of the west. Such an attack would cause oil prices to sky rocket, triple, quadruple or more. Millions worldwide would become unemployed overnight as countless businesses would go bankrupt. The entire world economy would collapse.

[OccupyMars]

What a crock of israeli and saudi propaganda 🤣😂🤣 yet they don’t mention saudis support for isis and killing Washington post journalist!!!

[mmassehs]

Show Iranians general making threats...you sir are in instigator

[khonyagaran]

Iran has not esclated the situation, Trump did by leaving the nuclear deal.

[raa]

you gave them the plan to execute the attack

[Cooking_With_Behrad]

Is in it so funny that all 3 of them sites have been attacked

[shmeckle]

How about the domestic and foreign Zionist, Wahhabi, neoliberal and neoconservative, CMIC (Congressional-Military-industrial-complex), etc., parasitic and compromising special interests piss off and let the US and Iran try to build some trust, understanding and pursuit detente.

If we can do it with the USSR, and with China, then we can do it with Iran. Just pitiful.

We know the factions that want regime change—and why they want it—and they should be known and called out and their propaganda countered and discredited.

Specifically Zionist domestic and foreign interests and Israeli partisans here in the States and their hasbara.

The US and Iran should talk and focus on just each other without outside influence and interference. Like Iran is different than the USSR and China, good grief.

US policy towards Iran is one of the most obvious examples of what happens to US policy when compromised by specific domestic and foreign-state compromising special interests. Absolutely pitiful for the US government—not surprising though.

[tomaseriksson]

I'm a little bit chocked that this is the first video that show what I for the last year has seen as the most possible end of the road with the maximum pressure on Iran.

USA really need to focus on accept Assad as leader for Syria until there can be real elections. If all foreign troops leaves Syria and Russia and EU secure the peace will that give the stability that the region need, and that will make a peace deal much easier between USA and Iran.

Saudi really need to stop support all terror groups in the region. As this video show will a war between USA and Iran be the end of the royal family in Saudi, so they have god reasons to try to find a more stabile region.

There is no question that USA will loose the whole Middle East to China and Russia if there will be a war. It will be nothing left of Iran and Saudi after a war but it will be Russia and China that will build up the region after the war.

If USA want to be an important force in the Middle East they must accept that they already lost the shia parts of the Middle East and should work out a better strategy together with the Sunni countries (Saudi & UAE) for a more stable Middle East. That means stop support of sunni terror groups and return to JCPOA (with lifted sanctions).

US strategy against Iran is so stupid that I almost think it is a trap set up by Russia and China. In the sam way as the 1979-80 war between Russia and Afghanistan that USA made Russia loose.