{"id":64616,"date":"2026-07-09T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64616"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:27:51","slug":"a-very-strategic-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64616","title":{"rendered":"A Very Strategic Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 9th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/us-strike-hit-bridge-on-china-iran-rail-corridor-also-used-by-russia-irans-fars-news-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times of Israel<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Overnight US strikes on Iran hit the Aq Taqeh Khan railway bridge in northern Iran\u2019s Golestan province, Fars news agency says, a trade link to Tehran\u2019s strategic partners China and Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Fars says the route that goes on to pass through Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan has been an important land link to China that gained further relevance during this year\u2019s blockade of Iran\u2019s Gulf ports by the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It adds that the route has also been used by Russia for cargo shipments to Iran since late 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A friend on X posted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">This wasn&#8217;t just a random target; it was the bypass valve for the &#8220;North-South&#8221; transport corridor, which Tehran has been desperately relying on to move goods while its maritime ports remain under U.S. blockade. By vaporizing this rail link, Washington has signaled that it\u2019s not just squeezing Iran\u2019s navy in the Strait of Hormuz\u2014it\u2019s systematically strangling the regime\u2019s entire land-based logistical network. \u200b<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">This strike is a masterclass in American strategic dominance. For months, the regime in Tehran has tried to use land routes through Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to circumvent the U.S. naval pressure, hoping to keep its economy on life support despite the blockade.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fars News Agency is Iran says that the bridge will be repaired quickly. If it is repaired quickly, we will have to bomb it again&#8211;it is Iran&#8217;s route around the blockade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 9th, The Times of Israel reported: Overnight US strikes on Iran hit the Aq Taqeh Khan railway bridge in northern Iran\u2019s Golestan province, Fars news agency says, a trade link to Tehran\u2019s strategic partners China and Russia. Fars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19773,6672,246,16869,19775,1663,13579,19774],"class_list":["post-64616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aq-taqeh-khan-railway-bridge","tag-fars-news-agency","tag-iran","tag-kazakhstan","tag-land-routes","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-the-times-of-israel","tag-turkmenistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64617,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64616\/revisions\/64617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}