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S8 Ep704: 6. Iranian Threats to Gulf State Infrastructure Guest: Akmed Scharawi and Bill Roggio Summary: Iran is threatening "crushing" attacks on Gulf desalination plants and oil fields. Experts analyze the vulnerability of regional air defenses and Iran’s strateg

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

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6. Iranian Threats to Gulf State Infrastructure Guest: Akmed Scharawi and Bill Roggio Summary: Iran is threatening "crushing" attacks on Gulf desalination plants and oil fields. Experts analyze the vulnerability of regional air defenses and Iran’s strategy of targeting civilian infrastructure to pressure the United States and its allies.,, (6)

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I'm John Batcher, Bill Rajio, my colleague and co-host, Senior Fellow Foundation for

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Defense of Democracies,

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watching the threats by the Tehran regime against their neighbors.

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And we welcome Ahmed Shirari of the FD, who's carefully tracking all these threats,

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what gets through and what does not.

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And now in light of the threat by the Islamic

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regime after the president has rejected their peace proposal or some aspect of it, I read the

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headline, Middle East War Live, Iran and U.S. reject peace proposal ahead of Trump deadline,

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which is in hours on the seventh, a deadline

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to attack more of the infrastructure of Iran, met by a threat by Iran to attack more of the

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infrastructure of the Gulf, predicated by an attack by the Israelis on the South Parr's field of Iran, which is petrochemical.

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Ahmed, I look at the map that you display and update for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's

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Long War Journal, and I see an arc from Kuwait City down along the coast of Saudi Arabia to the UAE.

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In those target zones, are there facilities that have been left untouched?

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Are there more critical facilities?

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When Iran uses the word crushingly, it makes me think they're upping the game.

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Good evening to you.

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Good evening, John.

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So, I mean, since the start of the war on February 28, Iran has attacked gas facilities, all facilities in the Gulf.

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But now the fear is if their facilities are attacked, if the power plants are attacked, then we might see an extensive targeting of desalination plants and oil fields and gas fields in the Gulf.

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Over the weekend, there was an attack that struck a desalination plant in Kuwait.

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And Kuwait, I mean, for the audience, relies, or 90% of its water necessities rely on desalination

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