On Mario Nawfal’s shows over the past two days we have been learning of the developing story that Iran was given a nuclear device by a third country. Larry Johnson said both he and Pepe Escobar were told this by a Pakistani source. I believe this third country to be North Korea. But North Korea did not act alone. They did it with the permission of China and an assist from Pakistan. Let me explain.

Trump met with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Then Putin came to Beijing. Then Pakistan’s Prime Minister Sharif met with Xi Jinping. The Pakistanis and Turkiye had been working together to redesign the Mideast after America’s coming withdrawal.

Then Xi Jinping went to North Korea. Only after that trip did we hear that Pakistan called up Marco Rubio and told them that:

Iran was pulling out of the peace talks.

Iran regarded the Israeli genocide of Lebanon as an attack on Iran. The Genocide in Lebanon has to stop.

Iran had an atomic bomb and was willing to detonate one to prove it??

Marco Rubio told Trump who exploded in the now famous phone call to Netanyahu. Bibi ordered minor changes to the ongoing atrocities in Lebanon but Defense Minister Israel Katz and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir went ballistic and demanded the continuation of the Genocide in Lebanon. Apparently, they are serious about the Greater Israel project including Lebanon all the way to the Litani river and probably a buffer zone on the other side of the river.

Iran has responded to all of this nonsense by firing a few missiles and drones as warning shots at Kuwait and Bahrain in response to the US attack on Qeshm island. Iran has been talking about a graduated response in their escalation. Iran has warned Israelis living in the north near the Lebanese border to evacuate as Iran’s next target will be the staging bases for the ongoing assault on Lebanon. Two or more missiles traveling at Mach 16 (3.38 miles or 5.44 kilometers) per second could do a lot of damage to Israeli morale. Their total Jewish population including related people with Jewish ancestry is 7.97 million. So 300 casualties to them would be like the US having 12,750 killed and wounded on one day. Israel has been lowballing their casualties. I had seen a video of an Israeli jeep in Lebanon engulfed in flames by a Hezbollah missile which the Israeli government claimed resulted in two men being slightly wounded.  No more will lies be accepted by the Jewish voters of Israel.

The other item on Iran’s escalatory ladder is the closing of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait which accounts for 10% of world oil. That would send the real price of oil to $180 a barrel. American truckers said they would be shut down if the price of diesel went from the current average of $5.35 to over $6.50 a gallon. Given the state of farmers in America, any increase in the price of fertilizers and diesel would bankrupt them allowing Wall Street to buy millions of acres ( a million hectares or more) in bankruptcy courts. When the Houthis cut off shipping in the Strait, markets all over the world will crash taking America with them.

In the Third World, I would expect at least 300 million people to die from what I have been calling SSIV (Starvation and Starvation Induced Violence.) Al Jazeera had a story a few days ago about a farmer in Myanmar who has been selling his possessions to a local pawn shop to keep farming. He says this could be his last rice crop. Fertilizer prices have increased 500% since Netanyahu convinced Trump to conclude his negotiations with Iran  by killing the moderates who had opposed the Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons. That was not quite a brilliant move.

The US military and NATO will be very busy for at least a year trying to protect our allies all over the Third World. That will cost NATO nations a lot of money they don’t have, especially since all of their defensive weapons have been wasted in the Ukraine and Israel. What a shame that all the missiles used to defend American bases and ships were wasted in idiotic wars we did not need.

There is something you need to know about China that puts a whole new level of urgency to this crisis situation.

As I mentioned before, I have been following Lei’s Real Talk channel on Youtube. In her latest show towards the end she revealed that China’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve is near empty. She is a former financial analyst who was born in Shanghai and moved to America before 2000. She said that in an earlier scandal China’s grain reserves had been stolen by Communist party members who had serious power. She said China is run by 200 Chinese families or as she prefers clans.

In a previous show, she said that China had a strict no-nonsene, no refusal audit of their military stores in 2025. Their military failed. China is a top down authoritarian regime. You cannot admit failure to your boss. They had grenades filled with sand. Missiles that had impressive videos that did not actually work and lots of other deficiencies. Xi Jinping has been in a life and death struggle with the military for the past several years. He has a few political appointees in positions of power in the military who would actually be harmful if they were asked to lead China into a shooting war with the US, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Australia even as earlier as 2027. He could not trust the military if they did win. If he lost, angry Chinese people of all backgrounds would boot him out of power.

Putin met with Xi Jinping after Trump. I think he was told of China’s plan to give an atomic bomb to Iran as Russia is a close ally of North Korea. If China and Russia told Kim Jung UN to do something to take down the US, he would be obligated to do it.

When Iran explodes their first atomic bomb as a demonstration, every super power will immediately examine the results and trace them back to its source, North Korea. That is why Pakistan wisely remained in the background and avoided center stage in this affair. Putin gets an end to the Ukraine war before the Russian elections. China gets an opening of the Strait of Hormuz so they can buy lots of oil keeping prices high for at least a year. And Iran gets the end of sanctions.

Iraq will probably get Kuwait. Bahrain is Shiite and will probably become a part of Iran. The Saudis made their deal with Pakistan in hopes of surviving. Qatar will say goodbye. Ditto for the UAE, though one or two of the seven emirates might survive.

Syria will probably become a protectorate of Turkiye. Iraq and Iran will work with Turkiye to isolate the Kurds of northern Iraq. The American bases in Iraq will be gone so the Kurds will have to sell their oil through Iraq with the permission of Iran.

The US will go beyond bankrupt and not be able to afford all those overseas military bases. I wrote years ago about Michael Hudson and his book Super Imperialism. He gave lectures at the State Department and at the Pentagon explaining how the US forced people overseas to pay for their occupation by the Americans through the inflation of the US currency. When a general finally understood how the Petrodollar worked, he said. “Wow! We are ripping people off.”

That is coming to an end this summer.

In my previous article I said the war over Hormuz is over if we want it to be. How so?

The US and Israel could never strike Iran without refueling their planes using American KC-135 refueling jets parked in Saudi Arabia. My point was that Russia, China, Iran, Turkiye, Oman, Egypt, India and all people of good should ask the Saudis to refuse to let the Americans to create all this risk of a Thermonuclear war. Just take your refueling jets back to America.

This is that article:The War in the Mideast is Over If We Want It: https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/the-war-in-the-mideast-is-over-if-we-want-it/

Now let’s add the knowledge that Iran has nuclear weapons with the blessings of China and Russia. Saudi Arabia is now partnering with Pakistan which is sending soldiers to Saudi Arabia to shore up the decision to tell the Americans to go home.

My next article will be a sort of Part II to this current article explaining how the world can exit this nonsense over the Hormuz.

I don’t have space here to list links to 100 or so articles I previously wrote. Suffice to say that I can prove Israel did 911 and killed JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. Their leaders also starved at least 3 to 4 million Americans to death in the 1930s. You can see a list of links to my major previous artcles here:

What the Professor Omitted About the Collapse of the American Empire: https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/what-the-professor-omitted-about-the-collapse-of-the-american-empire/