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“Real concern” of Iranian retaliation, says CNN analyst
From CNN’s Rhea Mogul
President Donald Trump warned that the US could still go after additional targets because there “is a real concern that now the Iranians will retaliate,” an analyst has said.
Iran has said “several times” that if the US “joins this war and attacks their nuclear facilities, they will retaliate against US forces in the region, against US interests, and there are a lot of those,” said CNN political and global affairs analyst Barak Ravid.
“There are US bases in Qatar, in the UAE, in Saudi Arabia, in Bahrain. They are all in the range of Iran’s missiles, and not even the long-range missiles. And the Iranians have thousands of short-range missiles that can reach those US bases. And I think this is now the number-one question: Are the Iranians going to launch this retaliation?” Ravid said.
He added the second question is whether Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping route.
“This is another threat they made. And closing the Strait of Hormuz would influence the entire commercial shipping in the Gulf. Much of it is oil and natural gas. This will get energy prices up. This will influence the entire world’s economy,” Ravid said.
