Scott Ritter: Hormuz Blocked! Iran’s Missile Fire Can Leave the US Navy DEFENSELESS

Scott Ritter asserts that US negotiations with Iran are a deliberate distraction, buying two weeks for the US to deploy missile defense (THAAD, Patriot) and strike capacity (F-35s, F-15s, F-16s, F-22s). The ultimate goal, he claims, is regime change, not a diplomatic outcome.

This is just two weeks for the United States to get all the means. The first thing we did was deploy the missiles the the missile defense THAAD Patriot and now we're deploying the strike capacity. And when we get to green on both defense, missile defense and strike capacity, the president will pull the trigger because we have no interest in a diplomatic outcome with Iran. Our goal, our objective has always been regime change.

The US plan involves a massive air campaign to suppress Iranian ballistic missile capabilities, combined with internal destabilization efforts. The air campaign would involve advanced fighter jets to "blanket the skies of Iran 24/7 for a week nonstop day and night air campaign" to hit missile operations. Simultaneously, the US has infiltrated over 100,000 Starlink terminals into Iran, outfitted with Israeli software, to generate violent civilian unrest and mobilize anti-regime cells, aiming to "bomb Iran, trigger massive protests, violent protests, suppress the regime, and carry out regime change to include killing the supreme leader."

We now know that we if we're going to fight Iran, the requirement is that we have to suppress Iran's ballistic missile launch capacity early on. That and in order to do that, you need just the kind of aircraft mix that we've got coming in. F-35s, F-15s, F-16s, F-22s. the United States, the CIA, and others have infiltrated over 100,000 Starlink terminals into Iran. The Americans are planning to bomb Iran, trigger massive protests, violent protests, suppress the regime, and carry out regime change to include killing the supreme leader, trying to kill the presidency, killing the leadership.

Ritter criticizes Iran's diplomatic approach and past responses, arguing that its lack of decisive, preemptive threats is enabling the US war plan. Iran's engagement in "diplomatic games" and its historical "hedged" responses are interpreted by US planners as hesitancy. Ritter argues Iran should issue immediate, existential threats to regional US allies (e.g., Jordan, Saudi Arabia) stating that their infrastructure would be "eliminated on day one" if they facilitate US aggression. This would force allies to reconsider hosting US forces.

Iran is is setting itself up for failure here. They're negotiating with a man who is deliberately plotting against them, which means he isn't negotiating in good faith. Iran hasn't been decisive in the past. Even in their response against Israel, it wasn't decisive. It was it was hedged. The only way Iran deters an attack is to state right up front what the cost of this war will be instantaneously.

The US military is fully capable of waging a large-scale conventional war and is prepared for nuclear escalation if critical assets are threatened. Ritter emphasizes the US is a "mature military power" that plans for global conventional war, including sustained operations with at-sea replenishment of munitions like Tomahawk missiles (potentially 2-3 reloads for 800-1000 missiles). He highlights that military planners are confident in having "solutions" for Iranian air defenses (S-300, S-400). Critically, he warns that if Iran sinks a US aircraft carrier or exhausts US conventional capabilities, the US would likely resort to nuclear weapons as a "warning" or to avoid failure.

Our military will not pull the trigger on an Iranian strike unless they are confident that they have an adequate response to anything the Iranians can do. We have a solution for the S400. We have a solution for the S300. if you're looking at 800 to a,000 tomahawks um you've got to understand that we can probably replenish at least two times over. If Iran sinks it, I believe the consequences would be nuclear.

Israel views the elimination of the Islamic Republic as the key to regional dominance. From Israel's perspective, destroying the Islamic Republic, which is the only nation that has consistently stood up to Israel and the US, would eliminate the "axis of resistance." This would pave the way for all Gulf Arab countries to become "compliant servant states" under a "greater Israel" and the US, fulfilling the vision of the Abraham Accords as a "vehicle of colonial empowerment."

The vision here is that we are able to to end the Islamic Republic with minimal damage... the maximum effect we get is the elimination of the Islamic Republic, which from the Israeli perspective opens the door for everything. The Abrams Accords will become reality. Israel will be anointed as the economic lord of the region. All Arab nations will now be, you know, subservient to to Israel.