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Jiang says the United States and Israel escalated from sanctions and bombing toward possible siege logic: cutting Tehran's railways and roads, attacking infrastructure, and threatening Iran if Hormuz remained closed.
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Siege
Jiang says the United States and Israel escalated from sanctions and bombing toward possible siege logic: cutting Tehran's railways and roads, attacking infrastructure, and threatening Iran if Hormuz remained closed.
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In the most severe formulation, Jiang says the strategy would be to besiege Tehran by cutting railways and roads and forcing the population into starvation.
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"Right so we've seen a very strange sequence of events these past six weeks. The war's been going on for about six weeks. And..."
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"...off the railway system, the roads which would put Tehran under siege. They couldn't get food and water from the other parts of Iran...."
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"off torrent basically to cut off all railways cut off all roads and basically force"
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"the population into starvation so this is where you think we're going uh i think destroying the population or as trump would say kill..."
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"be the strategy going forward yes to to basically besiege torrent it's just such a big country it"
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"...times. And Cubans are obviously sitting there in the middle, under siege, paying keen attention to what's going on. It may seem easy for..."
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"...be part of that. But the Americans will also try to siege Karg Island. They will try to seize the Iranian coastline. And so..."
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"...trump and at this time trump was bankrupt he was under siege because of law fair his house mar -a -lago was raided by..."
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"...Iran from a distance. In the past, we would call this siege warfare. And as long as it remains an air war, the United..."
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"...So what the Americans are using is a classic strategy called siege warfare, okay? And so what the Iranians are gonna do is, they're..."
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"...capital, Constantinople, was designed to be invincible. You could not lay siege to it. You could not conquer it. And as such, the Abyssinian..."
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"...city before the walls were breached by Zechariah's forces who laid siege to the city. Sources vary on how long the siege lasted. Depending..."
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