UPDATE 1:15 PM EDT -- CLOSED ! ! ! ! ! ! -- Iran Parliament Votes to CLOSE Strait of Hormuz

The Parliament of Iran voted - unanimously- this morning, to close the Strait of Hormuz which leads into/out-of the Persian Gulf after the unprovoked, American sneak attack upon Iranian nuclear program sites. 

The vote by Parliament must now also be approved by Iran's Supreme National Security Council.  But the impact of the vote is already being seen.  Oil tankers in the Persian Gulf are rushing to get out before the Iranians close the Strait. Over 50 oil tanker vessels are rushing to exit the Persian Gulf this morning:

About twenty percent (20%) of the DAILY global oil and petro-chemical supplies must transit thru that Strait every day.

Iran says it has a right to defend itself from the ongoing Israeli attacks, and now  also, the additional acts of war that were perpetrated by the United States last night.

Bomb Damage Assessments are coming in from the US attack and they are interesting.  Iran's main Uranium Enrichment facility at Fordow, was the most difficult to attack because it is built deep under a mountain.  

Satellite imagery this morning shows penetration holes for at least six (6) of the twelve (12) 30,000 pound bombs the US dropped:

AND, from MAXAR Satellite:

The Maxar frame confirms it: Fordow’s heart is still beating.

Despite the drop of at least 6 GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators, the imagery shows that the damage pattern skirts the outer shell of the site. Crater geometry and spacing are consistent with volley-mode sequencing designed to minimize shock front overlap, but all visible penetrations hug the periphery, either due to mis-queued coordinates or deliberate decoying via the site’s curved adit network.

The visible ejecta tells its own story. Opacity is low in the VNIR band, indicating a dust-only loft, no oxidized blast pattern, no epithermal signature, no heat venting. This means the warheads expended most of their energy in the overburden. No concentric spalling rings, no radial fractures exceeding 50 meters, and no post-strike IR bloom to indicate a breach of the core’s thermal envelope. The shallow subsidence patch at the upper center measures less than 10 meters across and under half a meter deep, nowhere near the magnitude required to indicate a cascade hall collapse.

What is visible is denial work. Fresh spoil piles flank the tunnel mouths at the southern bend, light-toned and loosely compacted, indicative of rapid back-blading by engineering crews, not post-strike structural failure. This suggests Iran moved quickly to obscure ingress points, either to mask internal survivability or mislead further ISR analysis.

The main enrichment halls, estimated at -90 meters below surface, remain sealed, pressurized, and likely electrically fed via alternate routing. What was damaged is surface infrastructure: access shafts, intake routes, possibly control galleries. All of it replaceable. None of it critical to cascade function.

Washington may claim a show of force, but Fordow endures. The media got their mushroom dust, the Pentagon got its footage, and Iran got a live test of its subterranean resilience. The deeper program survives, untouched beneath 90 meters of mountain.

TRUMP's "ORDER"

On what many people say was an ILLEGAL ORDER by President Donald Trump, the armed forces of the United States attacked Iran sites at Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz.   The U.S. dropped what the Pentagon confirms were twelve (12) "MOAB" Ground Penetrating Bombs, weighing a massive 30,000 pounds each.

The Massive Ordnance Air Burst (MOAB) bombs look like this before being loaded into a plane:

The US attacks upon Isfahan and Natanz were, reportedly, completely destroyed both sites.

The Order to attack, many Americans say, was illegal because Iran has not attacked the United States, Congress did not declare war, and there is no Authorization for the use of military force, that applies to Iran. 

A U.S. President does NOT have the authority to simply attack a foreign country.  This action by Trump, they say, is the "High Crime" of "Waging undeclared war" and is an Impeachable offense.

Making matters all that much worse, President Trump completely disregarded US Intelligence Agency assessments that Iran was NOT building a nuclear bomb, and instead acted on Israeli Mossad reports.

As most people around the world are readily aware, Israeli Mossad makes-up phony "intel" out of whole cloth, to achieve whatever goal their country has.   Mossad's motto is "By deception, we shall wage war" and deception is what they regularly utilize.

Iran is saying the attack against Fordow was NOT successful.  They assert the bombs did not penetrate deeply enough through the mountain, and the underground facilities are intact.  The surface entrance tunnels, though, are collapsed.

Moreover,  IRAN STATE TV reports "The three nuclear sites had long been evacuated" and stunningly admitted "We began preparing for this back in March."   The Deputy Political Director of the Iranian Broadcasting Authority also said "frankly there are no nuclear materials in them (the sites).  Those materials were moved to undisclosed locations and are completely intact and safe."

Iran says their enrichment of Uranium WILL CONTINUE.

Serious words too, this morning, out of Russia.  Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev posted this on social media:

So, if Medvedev is to be believed, Iran WILL be armed with nuclear weapons AND Enrichment of Uranium will continue no matter what the US or Israel wants.  

Hal Turner Analysis

If the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the world loses about twenty percent of its daily oil needs.  That will cause price spikes which some experts say, could see the cost for a barrel of oil to hit about $300.   That would convert to prices at our gas pumps being about $10 a gallon.   Yes, you read that right: $10 a gallon for gasoline.   It would completely collapse our economy.

As the prices go up, people will screech to release oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  But we don't have that anymore: Biden sold it off to try to suppress fuel prices before the election.

Oh, and Biden's people drained the reserve far too fast.  The speed with which they pumped out the oil, caused several of the underground caverns to collapse.  So we CANNOT refill much of the Reserve until that is fixed.  Right now, we have almost no reserves, at all.   Thanks Democrats!

Now, onto the Fordow nuclear site in Iran.  If Fordow were confirmed to be destroyed, what are the implications on Iran's nuclear program?

Despite the fact that Fordow is Iran's deepest underground nuclear site, its loss would not significantly impact the nuclear program, beyond simply slowing down the pace of enrichment.

Assuming that Iran has moved its stockpile of enriched uranium to other secure locations, the main setback due to the bombing of Fordow would be a temporary reduction in enrichment speed, as most of the centrifuges would be destroyed / inoperable.

However, Natanz actually contained way more centrifuges, which technically makes it a worse loss than Fordow, despite being less well-defended.

In any case: Iran can do with its current stockpile of uranium what it wants. It can enrich the material to 90% (weapons-grade) at one or several smaller undeclared sites throughout the country, and assemble a nuclear weapon if desired.

Even if the strike on Fordow is successful, Iran has an established industry of centrifuge manufacturing, and can quickly rebuild and replace the centrifuges, as long as the facility is not completely destroyed.

If, however, the facility is completely destroyed, then Iran will have to set up new enrichment centers, which can take from 6 months to a year.

There is one added bonus: Iran recently announced it would open up a third enrichment site. As of now, NOBODY knows where this site is located, and the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that centrifuges are already being installed at this new location.

In short: Enrichment will not stop, but the speed will be delayed. As for the existing stockpile of uranium, it will likely be fully safe somewhere.

Bad Reality for Americans:

A couple things are very clear:

1. We  here in the United States are absolutely, completely occupied by a foreign government: Israel. Trump is listening to Mossad over our own Intel Community, our Senators and Congressmen are more loyal to Israel than us, and our armed forces are being put in harms way for the sake of a genocidal, supremacist foreign state: Israel.

2. We will not be able to fix this through voting. 

Trump has volunteered the US military as an instrument for Israel, a genocidal foreign colonial implant, to attack a sovereign country that posed no threat to the US.

Trump did so in violation of the Constitution and against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the American public.

Trump allowed Israel to exploit American diplomacy as a ruse and made no effort to explain the logic of going to war to the American public.

Trump even ended his speech announcing the attacks by declaring, “god bless Israel”

So now it is clear and beyond debate: we live under a Zionist regime that hates us and which will sacrifice us for its ethno-supremacist agenda.

And we will reap a whirlwind.

Iran does not have an Air Force in any real sense.  So we won't be seeing fighter jets or Bombers in our American skies.

Iran does not have a major Navy, so it is almost impossible we might see missile launches into our land from the Oceans.

Iran's Army cannot mobilize here to the US, so invasion seems unlikely.

Iran does have missiles, but it is not clear how many -- if any -- could actually reach the US.  

What's left for Iran to retaliate against the US is, what we Americans would describe as "Terror attacks."

We have no idea when, where, or what will be attacked. 

It seems likely our Electrical Grid would be a first-target.

It also seems likely our Internet would be a target for Cyber attacks.

It is also possible that our public water supplies might be targeted for poisoning or chemical pollution attacks.

Of course, "Terrorism" can occur anywhere and none of us has any clue where, when, or how.

But one thing is now crystal clear:

The Iran media, last night, published this from the Iran National Guard, as seen on DrudgeReport.com:

Read that final sentence again: "Every American citizen . . . . is a legitimate target."

That is what each of us -- you and me -- now face, because our President broke his oath, violated the Constitution, and launched an unprovoked, sneak attack, against another country, on behalf of that cesspool of liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers, Israel.

Now we all see why Trump DID NOT place his hand on the Bible, when he was sworn-in this time.

UPDATE 1:15 PM EDT --

URGENT -- Iran has CLOSED the strait of Hormuz.   Oil tankers    trying to enter to load-up with oil, are being turned around: