May 7, 2026
Iran can withstand the US naval blockade against it for three or four more months before facing severe economic hardship, the CIA told the Trump administration this week, according to a report by The Washington Post on Thursday.
The report also said the CIA has found that Tehran retains “significant ballistic missile capabilities” …
The CIA report flies in the face of public statements by the Trump administration, which has claimed that the vast majority of Iran’s drone and missile capabilities have been destroyed.
The US has said that Iran is running out of storage space for its oil…
Analysts have told MEE that Iran has “weeks” of storage space left.
Of course Trump and Satanyahu lied
Four months lines up almost to the day with mid-term elections in the US. Funny how that works out.
I’d be more interested to know if the current demand for drones is even dipping into their reserves. I have my doubts.
Iran has been profitably exporting shahed drones at 20-50k USD for years now. This is a country with a 500B USD GDP that is now engaged in a highly mobilized fight for self-determination; this armchair general says they’d be smart to strategically stockpile and very selectively deploy to draw things out for years if necessary, and that they’re probably in a position to actually do it.
