The Islamic Republic of Iran is capable of bringing about the financial collapse of the West by blockading and cutting off the world’s energy supplies, according to E. Michael Jones, an American scholar and political analyst.
“If there is one country that is capable of blockading and cutting off the world’s energy supplies, it is Iran, because Iran can cut off the Strait Hormuz. If Iran does that, it will bring about the financial collapse of the West,” Jones told Press TV on Monday.
The analyst also said that the United States and Britain are no longer capable of imposing an economic blockade on Russia or any other powerful country.
Jones, a writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of the Culture Wars magazine, made remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a statement of a senior US official who said on Friday that the United States could impose a naval blockade on Russia if necessary to…