“There’s a very real possibility of the president now presiding over this parade Saturday night,
showcasing the US military’s most fearsome weapons and most fearsome soldiers,” Barbaro said.
“And the message in that context, in the context of what’s going on in LA, may feel more intended
or as intended for a domestic audience than as impressing or intimidating our foreign adversaries.”
Cooper replied: “They’re very worried about that, and especially in the former uniform world where
these are retired army officials, retired Marine generals, I’ve been on the phone with. They’re
really worried about this image.”
She continued: “They are also worried about a potential Tiananmen Square moment where you have
a protester standing in front of a tank. That is not what America is supposed to look like. And this is
another one of those potential scary things that we could see on Saturday.”
The South Pars/North Dome field is a natural-gas condensate field located in the Persian Gulf. It is by far
the world's largest natural gas field, with ownership of the field shared between Iran and Qatar. According
to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the field holds an estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet (51 trillion
cubic metres) of in-situ natural gas and some 50 billion barrels (7.9 billion cubic metres) of natural gas
condensates. On the list of natural gas fields it has almost as much recoverable reserves as all the other
fields combined. It has significant geostrategic influence...
US intelligence officials believe it’s possible that Iran may eventually launch cyber attacks against
domestic US critical infrastructure in retaliation. - CNN
