Strait of Hormuz<\/a> is not what it used to be. At the beginning of the war, we saw the great damage caused to Hormuz. Many players understood that if they do not develop alternative routes, they are truly heading toward disaster. We are seeing Saudi Arabia exporting its oil through the Red Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe Americans are extracting oil where the Iranian radar does not stop, ultimately penetrating or breaking through because of the blows it has taken,\u201d Rabi said. \u201cIran is a battered country. But I do not want this interview to create the logic that if the economy collapses, then the regime falls. Iran has another economy, the regime\u2019s economy. In supermarkets, people are suffering deeply in ways they never knew before, even when their situation is difficult. The question is what will happen with smuggling and cryptocurrency. The US is going to choke all the pipelines, the economic route to Iran. Let\u2019s give this its due.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘The threat here is not only against Israel but against the entire free world’<\/p>\n
Rabi also warned against relying on a diplomatic agreement with Tehran.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn agreement with Iran is a blessing in disguise, giving them time to gain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we had a real world that truly wanted to defend itself and understood what kind of regime exists there, they would have acted differently from the beginning,\u201d Rabi said. \u201cThey would have understood that the threat here is not only against Israel but against the entire free world.<\/p>\n
“If you remove this regime, it would be a great blessing, but it would not be easy. The economic path also does not provide a 100% guarantee; rather, it suggests that this regime will ultimately lose its vitality and power and that, given the circumstances, we may face a different reality that helps bring about the regime\u2019s downfall. This must be taken carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US sanctions are increasingly damaging Iran\u2019s ability to obtain hard currency and function economically, Professor Uzi Rabi told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,79845,43,79846,114994,40,38,41,39,146658,2586],"class_list":["post-600223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-news","tag-sanctions-against-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-sanctions-on-iran","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}