Sweep The Leg, Mr. President.

<![CDATA[I've been writing over the last few weeks about the relentless annihilation of both personnel and infrastructure of the two primary military forces inside the Islamic Republic of Iran - The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Basij. This weekend's target list by American and Israeli forces, and the successful results of which are being verified by the hour, are momentous. President Donald Trump, who represents the head White Walker in my previous Game of Thrones analogy, who until a little over a month ago was still on the other side of Iran's wall, addressed the press corps on the back of Air Force One Sunday night on his way back from Mar-A-Lago to Washington. Negotiations with his as-of-yet undisclosed Iranian interlocutor continue, and according to the President, are proceeding quite nicely. A little over a week ago in a column titled, Drink Iran's Milkshake, Mr. President, and in another from Friday, Donald Trump Previews Week Five On The Five, I introduced some plausible scenarios that could develop based upon the success of the combined air strikes by the Americans and Israelis, and what signs you might look for in the days and weeks ahead to discern whether those events might come to pass. Repeating for full disclosure, this is all analysis on my part from open source reporting and other verified events. I have no inside information or connection with those who are planning, directing, or carrying out ongoing military operations. From the look of things, they don't need my help anyway. I'm in awe of what our two nations have been able to achieve thus far. Last Thursday, President Trump took to social media and announced he was giving whoever was his negotiating partner in Iran ten days to negotiate a deal giving Trump what he wants in order to prevent the U.S. from taking down every power plant in Iran, plunging the country into darkness. What this set up was a 10-day Game of Thrones mini-series where, instead of the Iron Throne being located in Westeros, it is in Tehran. The factions of the former regime, set up to fracture by design as a doomsday plan by the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would now have a week-and-a-half to decide supremacy internally of who's going to run the country in the near term. If the wing of the former regime that Trump feels he can deal with, possibly speaker of Iran's "parliament", Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, is to prevail over IRGC hard-liners, especially ones from wars long ago that until recently were enjoying retirement, you would expect to see a lot of ex-IRGC commanders go 'tango uniform', as if often used as miltiary jargon for being removed from the battlefield...forever. If Ghalibaf, or perhaps Iran's paper president, Masoud Pezeshkian, were to begin their proverbial dirt nap, then you might expect the lights to go out in Iran sooner rather than later. As it turns out, this weekend alone, there were many different targets hit that turned up some very interesting names, and very definitely in some interesting places. As for the suggestion that U.S. forces should just go ahead and drink Iran's milkshake, seizing the gas station in the Gulf, Kharg Island, and perhaps negotiating with the Khuzestani tribes in the southwestern provinces of Iran that sit on the massive oil fields feeding the pipelines to Kharg, there's been a lot of movement there, too. Enough so that it's worth an update. Remember what Trump's red lines are for not destroying the electrical grid across the entire country. Leave the Strait alone, give up all enriched uranium, abandon any plans to rebuild, cut off ties to all proxies, including funding, and destroy all nuclear, missile, and drone facilities, except for defensive purposes only. Then, and only then might we think about lifting sanctions and allowing you to live through this. If not, we know where you are, we'll kill you, then turn off the lights, and let the masses do what they will. The first signal that the President had someone to negotiate with, one wielding power in the regime, was when first eight, then ten oil tankers that were Pakistani-flagged were released through the Strait and gifted to the Americans to control their destiny. Trump got to dictate what to do with the $3.2 billion dollars' worth of oil, not the Chinese. Over the past 48 hours, two American Marine Expeditionary Units, the Night Stalkers of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Delta and SEAL teams, along with the 82nd Airborne, have had time to set up in the region. And very quietly, it appears that there's traffic moving through the Strait again. Here's the Sunday night update on Air Force One by Trump.]]>