This was the word on the Iranian Republican Guard High Command mobilizing missiles, rockets and drones to impose it’s will on the Strait of Hormuz and any entity that threatens it. The Americans would be the ones in those cross hairs, with this guy the way he looks at work.

This is General Mohsen Rezaei, former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Last week he issued a scathing warning to Washington, declaring that any military provocation in the Persian Gulf would result in the sinking of U.S. vessels and the capture of its soldiers. He is acting like he is still a force to be reckoned with- but we would have to ask the current IRGC commander. He seems to be in a better mood.

Major General Ahmad Vahidi, currently, we think, in command in Tehran. With his military entirely out of the sky, under the waters and trapped in their garrisons, we suspect the morning planning meeting might have looked a little more like the image below:

But we suspect it might look a little more like this. We will see how everybody does this week!

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