Iran has issued a stark warning that global oil and gas supplies could be cut off for years, not days or weeks, if President Donald Trump follows through on his repeated threats to destroy Iranian energy infrastructure.
The warning, reported by BRICSinfo, comes as the US-Iran conflict continues to escalate with no diplomatic resolution in sight and the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that carries roughly twenty percent of the world’s oil, remaining effectively closed to normal commercial shipping. Iran’s message is clear.
If America destroys our ability to produce and export energy, we will ensure that the disruption is not temporary. It will be structural, prolonged, and felt across every continent.
Trump has made his intentions public and specific. He has threatened to obliterate Iran’s power plants, bridges, oil wells, and export terminals including Kharg Island, which handles ninety percent of Iranian crude shipments.
He has set deadlines, issued ultimatums, and framed the destruction of Iranian infrastructure as both a military objective and a economic punishment for Tehran’s refusal to reopen the Strait and negotiate on American terms. The threats are not abstract. They are operational, and Iran is taking them seriously.
Tehran’s response is not a plea for restraint. It is a promise of mutual destruction. If the United States and Israel destroy Iran’s energy sector, Iran will use every tool at its disposal to ensure that the disruption extends far beyond Iranian borders.
That could mean sustained attacks on energy infrastructure across the Gulf, including in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar. It could mean the permanent closure or militarisation of the Strait of Hormuz, forcing all Gulf exports to reroute through pipelines that lack the capacity to replace what the Strait once carried.
It could mean sabotage of undersea cables, pipelines, and storage facilities that connect producers to consumers across continents.
The result would not be a temporary spike in oil prices. It would be a fundamental reorganisation of global energy markets under conditions of scarcity, uncertainty, and conflict that no amount of strategic reserves or alternative supply can fully offset.
Oil prices have already climbed above one hundred dollars per barrel, a threshold that triggers inflationary pressure across every sector of every economy. If Iran’s warning materialises and supplies are cut for years rather than months, the economic consequences would dwarf anything the world has experienced since the 1970s oil shocks, and those shocks reshaped economies, ended political careers, and redefined the global balance of power….See More
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