"Israel struck Tehran’s ballistic missile factories overnight. Iran responded by firing missiles at Israeli cities at dawn — hitting Netanya, landing a missile in Tiberias, wounding eight people in Zarzir."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #Israel #StraitofHormuz
/1
https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-friday-192
"Iran simultaneously hardened its Hormuz position from a case-by-case toll system to an explicit blanket ban on allied shipping, turning back three container ships. Iranian drones and missiles also struck Kuwait’s port, set off sirens in Bahrain and Qatar. This happened on the same night the G7 was meeting in France to discuss how to end the war."
"The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said."
~ Costas Paris and Lara Seligman
#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #military #Marines #troops #Pentagon
/3
"Trump started this war as entirely a war of choice and largely on impulse, because Venezuela was fun for him and he wanted more."
~ Josh Marshall
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-casts-his-drama-of-the-day-spell-while-the-world-moves-on
"Let me tell you something. Watching the president of the United States fall asleep in his chair at a meeting of his cabinet in the White House while the U.S. military is at war in Iran seven thousand miles away was an out of body experience I won’t soon forget."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/another-day-another-zombie-apocalypse
"I think everybody that voted for Trump should be strapped down to a chair and forced to watch the entirety of the press conference about the war that Donald gave Thursday, over and over again on a loop until they admit defeat and that they were wrong. That’s it. Just watch this guy."
~ Greg Olear
Morning thoughts on Leon Black, Richard Kahn, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein.
"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.
'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/8
"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'
Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/9
"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/10
"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...
On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11
(continued from /11)
"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/12
"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/13
"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.
Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/14
"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering
/15
https://www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all-of-trumps-war-profiteering
"The reason people are getting so upset about these markets and the reason that politicians now are introducing bills to rein them in is because you can gamble on Iranian missile strikes and, you know, how many deportations will take place in America and whether Gaza will experience a famine."
McKay Coppins
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/16
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-america-learned-to-stop-worrying
McKay Coppins on his year of degenerate gambling.
"And like you can bet on preposterous, dystopian life and death things that like, of course, nobody should be able to gamble on. Right. Like, I think we all sort of understand that, like, this is a Black Mirror episode when we're gambling on like which, you know, part of Tehran is going to be bombed on what day."
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/17
"How else do you explain that about 15 minutes before Trump’s surprise announcement of how hunky dory talks were going, there was a sharp increase in purchases of stock market and oil futures?"
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/18
"There was no discernible reason for these sudden jumps occurring at 6:50 am, normally a fairly sleepy time for premarket trading. But when Trump’s 7:05 am announcement about all those productive conversations predictably drove oil prices down, and stocks rebounded, those 6:50 am traders made bank. In just a few moments, those anonymous and fortunate folks made roughly $580 million."
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #profiteering #morality
/19
"U.S. and global markets fell sharply as optimism faded over a possible U.S.-Iran ceasefire, with the Nasdaq entering correction territory and major indexes posting significant losses. Oil prices surged—U.S. crude nearing $95 and Brent above $109—driving higher inflation expectations and raising concerns about long-term energy costs."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/20
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-adds-signature-to-all
Good evening everyone.
"Bond yields climbed as investors sold off Treasurys, pushing borrowing costs higher, including mortgage rates rising above 6.5%. Analysts warn continued geopolitical risk and disrupted oil transport could keep prices elevated despite political downplaying of the situation."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/21
"Yesterday I think the markets began to truly wake up to the disaster Trump has created in the Middle East. Today, Iran is in charge of the Strait of Hormuz, and is now, despite the war, the dominant power in the region. They are holding our economy and the global economy hostage."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #StockMarket #markets #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/22
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/copy-senate-rs-cave-no-kings-is-here
"Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down."
Reed McMaster offers a valuable list of MAGA commentators from Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes to Steve Bannon pressing this point.
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #morality
/23
Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down. Additionally, oil and gas futures purchases spiked just before Trump’s announcement about a seemingly nonexistent “resolution” with Iran, leading some in right-wing media to suggest that people close to the president, or even within Trump’s administration, were guilty of insider trading.
"The president is experiencing the Iran War almost entirely through misleading video clips—and that’s very bad news for all of us. …
In an interview with Fox & Friends ahead of the press conference [after the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife], he enthused about his own audience reception of the Venezuela raid: 'I watched it literally like I was watching a TV show.'”
~ Chris Lehmann
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity
/24
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-iran-war-television/
Yeah, let’s just call this gambling with the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
This is crime against humanity, level gambling
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
Trump is buying the support of the fossil fuel industry for November
Putin, #PrinceBonesaw and Koch Network are profiting from higher oil prices
No wonder they want the wars on Ukraine, Iran, & Venezuela prolonged, they lobbied for it
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/25/putin-making-760m-a-day-oil-war-iran-windfall/
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/03/13/vladimir-putin-enjoys-a-huge-windfall-from-the-iran-war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/saudi-arabia-us-iran-attacks-mohammed-bin-salman
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/saudi-prince-iran-trump.html
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/18/2025/us-pushes-through-new-series-of-oil-and-gas-deals
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