The elder Khamenei was the top Shia cleric in the world, so this should have been more or less forseeable
economic ripples
Treasury manipulating the energy market to benefit Trump?
what could go wrong?
(say buddy, can you fill up your tank with an oil future?)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...al-2026-03-05/The U.S. Treasury Department is expected to announce measures as soon as Thursday aimed at combating rising energy prices in the wake of the Iran conflict, including potential action involving the #oil futures market, a senior White House official said.
The potential move would mark an unusual attempt by Washington to influence energy prices through financial markets rather than physical oil supplies, as officials race to blunt the political and economic impact of rising fuel costs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
Reuters was unable to determine more details about the investigation, including what evidence #contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have struck the school.
Nice vague article there. Noncommittal about who may have possibly bombed a girls school.
Subterfuge. It was Israel.
Trump’s War
Iran retaliated with missile and drone bombardments against U.S. bases and allied territory, targeting military facilities across the Gulf, including Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. One Iranian drone killed six American service members at a U.S. command center in Kuwait. Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."
Trump promised to end wars, not start them. Instead, he has deployed military force in increasingly dizzying ways. No other modern American leader has directed assaults in as many countries in such a short span of time. Since returning to office, Trump has authorized attacks in eight nations, three of which have never before been directly targeted by U.S. forces. In 2025 alone, he approved more individual airstrikes than his predecessor did over four years.
Trump has ordered a major campaign of airstrikes targeting Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen; authorized naval attacks on vessels from Venezuela suspected of drug trafficking; and signed off on the operation that seized that country’s authoritarian President, Nicolás Maduro, left more than a hundred dead, and placed the Venezuelan leader on trial in New York. Just days after the onslaught against Tehran, the U.S. took part in joint military operations in Ecuador, targeting “designated terrorist organizations.” His Administration has also fixed its sights on Cuba, where President Miguel Díaz-Canel has ramped up military exercises amid reports that Trump has asked advisers to devise plans to end the island’s six-decade communist rule.
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The focus of diplomacy then shifted back to Iran’s nuclear program. Trump tapped two trusted envoys to pursue a deal: Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who had negotiated the Gaza deal and were leading the Administration’s efforts to broker a peace between Russia and Ukraine. Their mandate was straightforward, if ironic: to secure an agreement not unlike the Iranian nuclear accord forged by Obama, the very deal Trump had excoriated and withdrawn from during his first term.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic was violently suppressing antigovernment protests across the country. Trump saw an opening. He told the demonstrators that “help is on the way” and warned Tehran a military response was on the table—though took no action as Iranian authorities shut down the internet and slaughtered as many as 30,000 people. According to senior Administration officials, Trump thought pressure from the streets, combined with American threats, could force Iran to the negotiating table.
But Witkoff and Kushner’s attempts to forge a deal in Geneva went nowhere. When the envoys returned empty-handed, Trump concluded the Iranians were playing for time, using what one senior U.S. official described as “games, tricks, and stall tactics.” Iran refused to entertain negotiations over two issues that Western officials considered central: its ballistic-missile program and its support for regional proxy forces, including Hezbollah and Hamas.
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rump made only a cursory effort to notify Congress before launching the attack, briefing a small circle of congressional leaders shortly before the operation was underway and leaving most lawmakers to learn of it after the fact. There had been little public debate beforehand about the possibility of war, including at his State of the Union address just days earlier. In the aftermath, some officials framed the strike as a necessary act of pre-emption against an imminent threat; others described it as a long-planned effort to cripple Iran’s military leadership and force a broader political reckoning in Tehran. Rubio’s statement—that Israel was preparing an attack of its own and that Washington moved first to weaken Iran before it could retaliate against American targets—was yet another rationale.
In his phone call with TIME, Trump described the mission as preventative. “America First is really about keeping America healthy and well, and not having other countries, you know, hit us,” he says. “There are occasions when you have no choice. This was an occasion.” The aim, he says, is to prevent Iran from having the capacity to endanger the U.S. “They can’t have a nuclear weapon. That’s number one, two, and three. Number four, no ballistic missiles,” he says. Another objective, Trump tells TIME, is installing “somebody that is rational and sane” to lead Iran.
Some experts say the U.S. may not be able to engineer a successor government more stable than the one it seeks to replace. “This is not a regime of individual leaders. It’s a regime of well-entrenched ins utions that have a monopoly on #coercion,” says Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Ins ution. “Other than just a continuous process of assassination, I’m not entirely clear on how the President anticipates he’s going to be able to determine the next leader of Iran.”
Others argue that the danger may run deeper still: that the fall of the Islamic Republic could fracture Iran rather than reform it, unleashing internal power struggles, proxy conflicts, or even a civil war. The Trump Administration is betting on the possibility that Iran’s population might welcome outside pressure against the clerical regime. Iran is a young country—more than 40% of its population is under 30—and many of those citizens have lived their entire lives under sanctions, repression, and economic stagnation. Trump’s advisers believe that resentment toward the ruling establishment could produce change, particularly if a new government could quickly align with regional powers such as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that have grown closer to the U.S. and Israel in recent years.
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https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/
it always goes back to russia and trump following russian and israeli orders;
"Unconditional surrender"
1. means it's a war
2. means the goal is regime change
Anyone else thinks this may also be Trump doing anything he can to get off of the Epstein talks, even if it's crazy like bombing Iran
AXIOS: RUBIO TOLD ARAB FOREIGN MINISTERS THAT WASHINGTON'S GOAL IS NOT REGIME CHANGE AND THAT IT WANTS DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20...ttack-on-iran/Indonesia suspends participation in Board of Peace following attack on Iran
Indonesia has announced the suspension of all discussions on the proposed Board of Peace, an initiative launched by US President Donald Trump, as military tensions rise in the Middle East.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono said the decision to suspend participation was taken because of the latest military escalation in the region, which has directly affected the foreign policy priorities of countries involved in the initiative.
He explained that international attention has now shifted to the consequences of the conflict with Iran. He added that Indonesia would hold intensive consultations with its partners in the Gulf region, as they are directly affected by the ongoing attacks and rising tensions.
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Crazy cultists lil mike grinder lil johnson wants to impose his insanity on the insane Iranian cultists (different god/different insanity) - because - crazy cultists should kill other crazy cultists....i think?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ia-russian-oilUS grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war
The US has temporarily allowed India to buy Russian oil currently stuck at sea in an effort to keep global supplies flowing and temper further price increases.
The US treasury has issued a 30-day waiver allowing India to buy Russian oil, having previously imposed heavy sanctions related to the war in Ukraine.
“To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the treasury department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil,” the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said in a statement posted to social media on Thursday. “This stopgap measure will alleviate pressure caused by Iran’s attempt to take global energy hostage.”
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india...816133475.htmlIndia allows Iranian warship to dock at Kochi, crew housed at naval facilities
India has allowed an Iranian warship to dock at the southern port of Kochi following a request from Tehran, and the vessel’s 183-member crew has been accommodated at naval facilities, government officials said on Friday, two days after an Iranian frigate was torpedoed and sunk by a US submarine near the coast of Sri Lanka.
IRIS Lavan, an amphibious warfare vessel, was in the region to participate in an International Fleet Review hosted by India last month. It docked at Kochi on Wednesday, the same day that the frigate IRIS Dena was sunk about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka’s coast, killing 87 sailors and dramatically widening the US-Iran conflict.
On Thursday, Sri Lankan authorities allowed another Iranian warship — IRIS Booshehr — to take shelter in the country and accommodated its 208-member crew at a naval camp. IRIS Booshehr too had participated in India’s International Fleet Review and sought permission to enter a Sri Lankan port after experiencing engine problems.
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according to US officials, we did it
Trump starts WW3 and suddenly it's the Department of Defense again
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...uz-2026-03-06/Iran's Guards challenges Trump to have US Navy escort oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz
March 6 (Reuters) - A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards challenged U.S. President Donald Trump to deploy U.S. #naval vessels to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported on Friday.
The U.S. Navy could begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary, Trump said on Tuesday. The conflict in the Middle East has halted shipping and energy exports through the vital Strait of Hormuz.
Guards spokesperson Alimohammad Naini said: "Iran strongly welcomes the escort of oil tankers and that U.S. forces will be there for the crossing of the #Strait of Hormuz. And we are, by the way, awaiting their presence," according to state media
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/iran...l-futures.htmlOil surges 35% this week for biggest gain in futures trading history dating back to 1983
U.S. crude oil on Friday posted its biggest weekly gain in futures trading history, as the escalating war in the Middle East has triggered a major disruption to global fuel supplies.
West Texas Intermediate futures surged 12.21%, or $9.89, to close at $90.90 per barrel. Global benchmark Brent rallied 8.52%, or $7.28, to settle at $92.69 per barrel.
U.S. crude soared 35.63% for the biggest weekly gain in the history of the futures contract dating back to 1983. Brent jumped about 28% for its biggest weekly gain since April 2020.
President Donald Trump on Friday demanded unconditional surrender from Iran, raising fears of a prolonged war that could wreak havoc on the global oil and gas market. The war has already brought traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route for energy supplies, to a near standstill.
Qatar’s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, told The Financial Times on Friday that crude prices could reach $150 per barrel in the coming weeks if oil tankers were unable to pass through the Strait.
This could “bring down the economies of the world,” Kaabi said.
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Production cuts could approach 6 million bpd by the end of next week if the Strait is not open to traffic, Kaneva said. JPMorgan expects the United Arab Emirates to show supply constraints next week.
The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline jumped nearly 27 cents in the last week through Thursday to $3.25, according to data from U.S. travel organization AAA
The war between Iran and the U.S. entered its seventh day on Friday. In a press conference on Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. had “only just begun to fight.”
“Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation,” he told reporters.
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