If you imagine the Middle East with background noise these days, then there is an excessive roar, thunder and hissing around Iran: On Friday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards began exercises in the central Iranian Kavir Desert to demonstrate the effectiveness of their missiles and drones .
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The Iranian Navy is conducting target practice in the Gulf of Oman, i.e. in the immediate vicinity of the strategically important oil trade route through the Strait of Hormuz and dangerously close to the US units currently cruising there.
According to media reports, Israel is also said to have sent submarines to the area, tolerating its new Arab allies, who also fear Iran's firepower.
And in Fordo, Iran, deep under a mountain range, thousands of centrifuges rotate to enrich the radioactive mineral uranium to 20 percent - far higher than is necessary for non-military purposes and allowed under the 2015 nuclear agreement.
All of this can easily lead to war.
Or it is the noisy prelude to something completely different.