Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: BREAKING- Iran is now forcing the United States out of Persian Gulf; 10-day countdown

by Transition Protocol [7-22-2026 | 37:34] Pepe Escobar(bio), Larry C. Johnson(bio).

BREAKING: Iran is now forcing the United States out of the Persian Gulf — base by base — even as U.S. precision-missile stockpiles run critically low. In this intelligence briefing, Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson and Zulfiqar Ali break down the “strategic rupture”: the confirmed U.S. drawdown from Gulf and Jordan bases, the missile-magazine crisis (Patriot, THAAD, Tomahawk), the surging oil price as Brent breaks above $90, and the Red Sea “siege for a siege” squeezing Saudi Arabia.

We connect the failed Pakistan-brokered off-ramp, China and Russia quietly backing Iran’s red lines, and the reported 10-day countdown to a possible final showdown — with clear labels for what is confirmed and what remains developing. Larry Johnson is a former CIA analyst and State Department counterterrorism official; Pepe Escobar is a veteran geopolitical correspondent covering Eurasia.

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