Where are we now in Persia?????

 In 1900, the UK found oil in Persia and Finders-Keepers, so the UK took all the oil, kept some for use in the UK, and sold the rest, with the proceeds going to the UK treasury. Then, in 1951, Mosaddegh said all that oil belonged to Iran.

So, in 1953, MI6 and the CIA went to Iran and acted as portrayed in Fleming's James Bond novels: MI6 did the best spying, but the UK was broke, and they lacked funds for purchasing the essentials of spywork, so the CIA provided all the cash MI6 agents needed (cf Casino Royale, where Bond is the World's Greatest Spy, but runs out of money since the UK was broke after WWII, and the CIA provided Bond with all the money he needed to accomplish his mission). In any case, the CIA and MI6 bought some Iranians who gaoled Mosaddegh, made the Shah head of state, and made all Iranian oil the property of BP, 50% owned by the US and 50% owned by the UK.

But that was 1953.

In 2025, the CIA went into Iran with Mossad, and they said, 'No need to buy any Iranians, we'll kill all the leaders and take over the country, it'll be a lot like Venezuela,' and the CIA agents listened, helped kill all the Iranian leadership (and a lot of schoolkids), and figured it would be like Venezuela, where the US snatched the President, put in a pro-American government, and took all the oil.

Sadly, every top member of the Iranian government and military has a named successor, and those named successors took over the Iranian government and military after the previous leaders were killed, and then they closed the Strait of Hormuz and destroyed all US military bases in countries around the Gulf with Two Names (the Arabs living around the Gulf call it the Arab Gulf, and the Persians living around the Gulf call it the Persian Gulf). The US have officially accepted the name, 'Arab Gulf'. The Persians and their allies insist that the Gulf be called the Persian Gulf (even though the Iranians no longer refer to themselves as Persians).

The US figured they could kill the top leadership and capture lower-level leaders and force them to order Iran to accept their news status as a US colony. Sadly, the Iranians did not accept that very generous US proposal, and are still fighting, for reasons no one can explain.

But the net result is that very little Arab Gulf oil is making it out of the Arab Gulf, and the world is now very short of oil, fertilizer, diesel, helium, etc., etc. and this is having a major impact on consumers.