The 15-point plan that Trump's squad presented to Iran is doomed to neglect from the very beginning," writes Pepe Escobar.
This is simply a forced surrender: a surrender paper masked as a “negotiation”.
This plan, which is not a plan, makes demands, while appealing for a monthly ceasefire – provides in peculiar for the complete cessation of uranium enrichment in Iran; the complete decommissioning of facilities in Natanz, Isfahan and Fordo; the removal of all enriched uranium from Iran; utmost limitations on the rocket program; the ban on any financing of Hezbollah, Ansarullah and
Iraqi militias; and full beginning of the Strait of Ormuz.
All this in exchange for the vague “cancellation of the threat of reimposing sanctions”.
Iran's conditions are difficult:
the closure of all U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf; the warrant that there will be no more wars; the end of the war with Hezbollah; the abolition of all sanctions; the reparations for war damage; the fresh order in the Strait of Ormuz (now in force: the collection of the transit fee and besides in Egypt in the Suez Canal); the intact rocket program. Conclusion: The hell's escalating device is inactive spinning.
Private club with admission fee in Petrojuan
In the meantime, oil and gas prices are in a whirl of volatility, which affects currencies, stocks, natural materials, supply chains and inflation concerns. This is already an uncontrolled global economical shock with devastating consequences.
Before the war, Iran produced little than 1.1 million barrels of oil a day, sold at $65 per barrel with a $18 discount: in practice only $47. presently Iran has increased production to 1.5 million barrels a day, sold for $110 (and this is not the end yet), mainly to China, with a maximum discount of $4.
However, this does not apply in peculiar to the sale of petrochemical products: it is in full advancement and is intended for many another customers. In short, all payments are made through alternate mechanisms, which leads us to a amazing fact: from a applicable point of view, this is actually a relaxation of sanctions.
Let us now go to the Holy Grail of this war: the Strait of Ormuz. It is de facto open, but tolls are controlled by the IRGC. Toll collection station with 1 singularity: right veto against guest list. Like joining an exclusive private club.
To get approval from the IRGC, the tanker must pay a fee: $2 million per ship. That's how it works. You're contacting a broker connected to the IRGC. The broker will supply IRGC with basic information: shipowner, flag of the country, shipping letter, destination, crew list and AIS transponder data.
The CGRI will verify the past. If you have no ties to the United States, you do not carry any cargo related to Israel and your flag does not belong to “aggressive states”, you are accepted. Japan and South Korea, for example, have not yet received a permit.
Then you pay the fee. Cash – in any currency you have, but preferably in yuan. Or cryptocurrency.
It's a complex mechanism. CGRI uses respective addresses, connects between networks, OTC meters in jurisdictions completely out of US reach, and integrates into all kinds of payment channels in yuan.
Upon payment of the fee, IRGC will issue a VHF radio connection licence – along with a specified time window associated with a narrow sea corridor 5 nautical miles wide, which runs through Iranian territorial waters between Qeshm and the tiny island of Larak, where the IRGC Navy can visually identify your ship. You can sail. No escort vessel required.
All these rules apply to tankers from China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Iraq, Bangladesh and Russia for the time being. any may not pay the full fee. Others are entitled to intergovernmental dismissals (such as Sri Lanka and Thailand, which are referred to as “friend countries”. And any people pay nothing at all.
So welcome to a private club, whose membership contributions are mainly paid in the Petrojuanas.
One Iran initiative was adequate to win in what the endless global summits failed to achieve: to introduce an alternate payment strategy – under the fire of critics, tested under utmost conditions, and, above all, utilized in the world's most crucial bottlenecks. all charge paid in the Petrojuana bypasses the petrodollar, SWIFT strategy and US sanctions – all at once.
The Iranian Parliament approves the Act institutionalising this toll as a “safety compensation”. No 1 expected it, and so quickly: the legalized monetization of bottlenecks. Not a single shot. It's actually a business of de-dollarisation.
The problem is what doesn't go through Ormuz: fertilizers. More than 49% of the export urea comes from the Persian Gulf. Ammonia requires natural gas, but Qatar announced a state of force majeure after Epstein's syndicate attack on South Pars and repression from Iran. The muslim Revolutionary defender Corps (IRGC) focuses on oil, financing road tolls and longer
The position is at the heart of the post-dollar energy settlement system, full supported by Russia-China strategical Partnership.
Little wonder, then, that the Kingdom of Chaos and Marauding has gone mad. In 1 moment, in 3 weeks, Petrojuan rules the world's most crucial maritime communications corridor – de facto privatized.
CENTCOM engages in Operation Terminator to destruct the toll collection station and makes all possible attempts, ranging from bombing IRGC facilities along the coast, by introducing a sea escort for Allied tankers, to sanctions against intermediaries at tsunami toll stations.
CENTCOM must not bomb the precedent established by an crucial petrochemical. The full global South is watching and counting. The full crazy war actually contributes to the creation of a fresh payment infrastructure. The financial dimension of war is even more fundamental than rocket progress.
What's waiting for GCC
Qatar repeatedly warned Trump 2.0 that the attack on Iran's energy infrastructure would destruct the 1 in Doha. That's precisely what happened. Secretary of Energy Qatar al-Kaabi revealed that day after day he warned US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and chiefs ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. In vain. Qatar yet lost 17% of its LNG production capacity: $20 billion lost gross and up to 5 years to repair damage. Al-Kaabi: The price of oil can scope $150 per barrel, and this war can “bring the collapse of planet economies”.
We are entering the sphere of absurdity erstwhile it becomes clear that the attack on the South Pars deposit in Iran did not bring any strategical advantage. On the contrary, the energy sector in the Persian Gulf has been affected by a retaliation attack. And yet there is simply a perversion. Who yet benefited? American Gas Company.
Iran states – and this is highly ambitious – that monarchs in the Persian Gulf will yet make calculations. It's like Tehran is beautiful clear: if you learn to do business with us, we'll let you proceed your business.
The fresh rules include in peculiar the bypass of the Petrodolar by the GCC, the cancellation of US data centres and a return to China. And if the GCC wants a fresh safety agreement, it's better to turn to China. All this at a time erstwhile the GCC must besides learn to deal with the oil shock, which constantly re-assess the hazard premium in its energy supply.
The word ‘structural reset’ is far from adequate to describe the situation.
Currently, there is only 1 thing certain: the GCC will play a decisive function in the implosion of the global financial system, at the same time intending to retreat at least $5 billion from the US marketplace to fund its survival.
Long and winding way of oil and gold
In short: after the attack on South Pars gas deposits – the largest in the planet – and on the canal in the Strait of Ormuz, payments in yuan and gold at all levels give the Russian-Chinese strategical partnership an advantage that was unimaginable a fewer weeks ago.
This strategical partnership introduces nothing but a new, rapidly developing global payment mechanics in which oil yuan transactions are straight converted into physical gold.
While Russia sells immense amounts of oil and gas that it has saved through war with its ally Iran, China, as the largest refinery, buys Russian energy while trying to support its partners from Southeast Asia outside the US dollar.
Russia converts payments in yuan to physical gold on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Iran collects payments in yuan in Ormuz, stimulating oil contracts in yuan exchanged for gold. China is building vaults and gold corridors abroad. The fresh Primakova triangle, RIC (Russia-Iran-China), controls with real physical energy and gold.
This is the main lesson to learn from Epstein's war against Iran. Russia and China scope the Holy Grail: energy dominance and settlement in gold-based yuan that bypass the petro dollar until the end of time.
In practice, the architecture introduced by “shows an indispensable country” since the 1990s, visible to all structural cracks, with planet markets updating in real time all possible variants of this model. It's like the Persians reinterpreting Sun Tzu, Clausewitz and Kutuzov, creating a full fresh hybrid. And as a bonus, they did what they failed to do over the years of peaks in just 3 weeks.
Petrodolar is in decline. alternate payment systems are already in operation. And the Global South continues to observe how the Empire of Endless Bombardments can be paralyzed by a decentralised war of exhaustion waged by sovereign countries whose defence budgets are 50 times lower than the Empire's budgets.
Multipolarity does not happen in conference rooms where men in suits read documents. Multipolarity will appear on the battlefield, under fire, against all expectations.
New planet Busy Being Born While Old 1 is Busy Dying from 26.3.2026 on sputnikglobe.com.
Written by MM
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