03-23-26 carib
Iranian military spokesperson Zolfaghari mocks Trump with ‘You are fired’ jab
"Hey, Trump, you are fired,” Zolfaghari said. “You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter." |
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03-23-26 spal
This market has 1987 written all over it, imvho.
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Flash crash Panas? |
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03-23-26 spal
“I might do it. I might not do it. I might have already done it. Nobody knows.”
— Trump Tzu
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03-23-26 carib
An Iranian source later denied that the US and Iran were holding talks about ending the war.
"There is no direct contact with Trump, not even through intermediaries. Trump retreated after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia," the unnamed source told the Iranian state-affiliated Fars News Agency. |
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03-23-26 carib
Taco for lunch today?
:~) |
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03-23-26 carib
| I think the G points for Trump are the S&P500 and the price of a gallon of gas. |
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03-23-26 patient-trader
Trump chickening out is an excellent chance to sell into the rally. Selling around 50-70% retracement has a very good risk / reward ratio as the market will struggle to make new highs but has a huge downside. This market has 1987 written all over it, imvho.
btw high energy prices are an AI killer. Politicians will be under public pressure as AI and consumers compete for scarce energy. |
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03-23-26 carib
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03-23-26 carib
Small units within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Basij have reportedly begun refusing to report for duty, signaling emerging cracks within the regime, Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter told Bloomberg on Sunday.
“The edifice of this tyrannical regime is cracking. It has not opened up to wide chasms yet, but that's the direction it's going,” Leiter said, adding that it wasn’t just Iran’s military capabilities that were being degraded, but also the morale of its armed forces. |
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03-23-26 carib
Trump is deliberately unpredictable.
He might walk out.. or decide to nuke Tehran. |
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03-23-26 amateur
China is quietly enjoying the deterioration of the American empire by the combination of Chinese violent pawns (Russia and Iran) with an incompetent Neron in Washington.
If Iran is not subdued, can they monetize an Ormuz toll?
Toll free for China and friends, heavy toll for US and theirs?
Europe should be wishing Iran’s full defeat… |
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03-23-26 panasonic
"THE EXACT LIST OF TARGETS"
China nowhere to be found, seems they are ok going "all-in" in this hand. |
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03-23-26 spal
Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Apocalypse Now |
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03-22-26 savo
on another matter... I am hearing from the US that the housing market is as cold as it has never been with mortgage rates going up...
A housing crisis would be the last nail in the Fed's coffin... if there is any doubt now as to whether rates should be held or increased them... the moment a housing crisis triggers a financial crisis... the Fed will have no choice but to enter into "Monumental QE".
death by inflation, death by financial crisis... or by war! |
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03-22-26 savo
carib...but you just reminded us the US likes foreigners to pay for her wars...
which means more debt, higher interest rates... more deficits more inflation now and in the future... more taxes... less benefits...
wars cost money and this war is already costing a lot of money... whether the US wins it or not... because the US will also have to pay for reconstruction.
Plus the world now knows that Iran can close Hormuz...
a two million barrel surplus sent oil to 59... how high can a 20 million deficit send oil? 150?.. 200? |
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03-22-26 spal
IRAN JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF TARGETS THEY WILL STRIKE IF TRUMP BOMBS THEIR POWER GRID
Not vague threats. Not "we will retaliate." NAMED FACILITIES. SPECIFIC ADDRESSES. Country by country.
Ras Al-Khair Desalination → LARGEST in the world → millions lose water
Shuqaiq Power Plant → southern Saudi grid GONE
Al Kharsaah Power Plant → Qatar grid hit
Ras Laffan C Power + Water → Qatar's lifeline GONE
Taweelah Desalination → one of Gulf's biggest → UAE water supply hit
Barakah Power Plant → UAE's NUCLEAR plant → strike = fallout risk
Al Dur Power + Water → Bahrain's PRIMARY water source → 60% dependent
North Zour Power Plant → Kuwait's largest → 90% desalination dependent
Aqaba Thermal → Jordan's south grid
Samra Power Plant → 40% of Jordan's total electricity
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03-22-26 carib
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03-22-26 spal
cynically, one can say this war is good for veny..
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Then Carib we did not disappoint you there.
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03-22-26 carib
As Operation Roaring Lion enters its fourth week, an Israeli official said Sunday that the fall of Iran’s regime is not expected during the current war but could come months afterward.
“At no stage did we think the regime would fall during the war,” the official said. “The assessments were that the regime’s collapse would come several months after the war. No one thought the public could take to the streets while under bombardment.”
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03-22-26 carib
| cynically, one can say this war is good for veny.. |
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03-22-26 carib
Jokes apart, I think the likely cost of not winning this war (after starting it) would be higher than the cost of winning it.
My main problem is I have not much visibility on what is actually going on, and I hope the israeli and the US military knew well what to do and expect. |
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03-22-26 carib
Savo: but you just reminded us the US likes foreigners to pay for her wars...
:-) |
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03-22-26 savo
| carib.. did those polls informed the cost of the war to the respondents? |
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03-22-26 carib
While overwhelmingly supporting a swift conclusion to the war with Iran, and largely opposing US military action to begin with, the vast majority of Americans view it as important to ensure the freedom of the Iranian people, to permanently stop the regime’s nuclear program, and to prevent Tehran from threatening other countries.
The findings come as part of a CBS poll published on Sunday. The survey, conducted from Tuesday through Friday of last week, questioned 3,335 American adults representative of the US population.
According to the poll, 92% of Americans believe it's important for the conflict to end as quickly as possible. Four in five said it was important to make sure the Iranian people were safe and free.
A total of 73% said it was important for the US to permanently end the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, and 68% said it was important to stop Iran from posing a threat to other countries.
Additionally, just over half of respondents (53%) said it would be unacceptable to end the war with the Iranian regime still in power. |
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03-22-26 carib
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03-22-26 carib
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Pahlavi |
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03-22-26 carib
| Israel’s military chief Eyal Zamir has said the war, which is entering its fourth week, is at its “halfway point” and will continue during the Jewish festival of Passover, which begins at the start of next month. The country’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Saturday that the US and Israel would “intensify” and “significantly increase” their strikes on Iran in the coming week. |
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03-22-26 spal
Carib - I realize, I was just poking fun.
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Maybe the granddaughter of the late Shah?
Yes - fair choice.
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03-22-26 carib
| Spal: it was a joke.. but maybe the granddaughter of the late Shah? |
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03-22-26 victor
El cuartel general de las Fuerzas Armadas de Irán declaró que está dispuesto a cerrar el estrecho de Ormuz de forma indefinida si el presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, lleva a cabo su amenaza de bombardear las centrales eléctricas iraníes.
El comunicado del domingo es la más reciente advertencia de Teherán sobre las represalias que se producirían ante cualquier ataque contra el sector energético del país.
Trump afirmó el sábado que ordenaría el bombardeo de dichas infraestructuras si el estrecho de Ormuz no se abría por completo al tráfico marítimo en un plazo de 48 horas.
Las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes respondieron el domingo que, si se llevan a cabo las amenazas estadounidenses contra las centrales eléctricas de Irán, el estrecho de Ormuz se cerrará por completo y no se reabrirá hasta que se reconstruyan las centrales destruidas.
También afirmaron que todas las infraestructuras energéticas y de comunicaciones israelíes serán blanco de ataques, así como “empresas similares de la región con accionistas estadounidenses”.
“Las centrales eléctricas de los países de la región que albergan bases estadounidenses serán objetivos legítimos para nosotros”, añadió el cuartel general militar.
Anteriormente, el presidente del Parlamento iraní, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, afirmó en una publicación en X que las infraestructuras críticas y las instalaciones energéticas de Oriente Medio podrían quedar “irreversiblemente destruidas” si las centrales eléctricas iraníes fueran objeto de ataques. |
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03-22-26 victor
Una fuente iraní dijo a CNN que Teherán está avanzando en la monetización del control del estrecho de Ormuz, donde Irán decide quién pasa y en qué condiciones.
“Seguiremos reprimiendo a Israel y estableciendo un nuevo régimen legal en el estrecho de Ormuz”, afirmó la fuente, en aparente referencia a algunos informes que detallan pagos de alrededor de US$ 2 millones por cada petrolero que pase.
La fuente añadió que Trump debería “aceptar las condiciones de Irán” para poner fin a la guerra, advirtiendo que corre el riesgo de cometer un suicidio político.
“Parece que Trump, ante la presión interna en Estados Unidos y el aumento de los precios mundiales del petróleo, debería salir cuanto antes de la trampa que Netanyahu le ha tendido y aceptar las condiciones de Irán. Si no concede a Irán las concesiones necesarias, podría entrar en un camino sin fin que pone en riesgo toda su carrera política”, afirmó la fuente. |
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03-22-26 spal
we need a shaved leadership.
preferably a woman.
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Is there a flow of logic here Carib ... from beards to shaving and thence ultimately to womanhood?
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03-22-26 carib
Amateur: agreed.
fortunately Argentina and Uruguay are far from Iran.. |
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03-22-26 carib
Savo: then we need a shaved leadership.
preferably a woman.
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03-22-26 savo
Join The US Military - Kill And Die For Israel
Once again, US service members are thrown into an unjust war for a foreign power
Brian McGlinchey
Mar 20, 2026
https://www.starkrealities.net/p/join-us-military-kill-die-for-israel |
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03-22-26 savo
and I wonder whether what we are seeing can be considered a war... or simply a campaign of mutual destruction of infrastructure...DT destroys Iran infrastructure... Iran destroys infrastructure of US allies in the golf.
Wars are not supposed to imply some kind of direct confrontation? |
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03-22-26 savo
controlling the worlds most powefull arsenal.
he doesn't control anything... he is controlled...all he does is post in Truth Social...what is written for him.
DT campaigned on "no wars".. in particular on no war against Iran... and said a for KH was a vote for war with Iran.
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03-22-26 amateur
China is the chess master.
All other players live in a fantasy world. Europe believes that Iran would not go nuclear, ot that it will be a “good” neutral.
DT has lost all restraint and is just a senile, agressive, irresponsible clown, controlling the worlds most powefull arsenal.
Israel has some brains but depends on the clown.
World has become ugly… |
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03-22-26 amateur
Powel praises Volker as model…
https://assets.bwbx.io/s3/readings/TC7RZMKK3NYD1774139081113.mp3
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03-22-26 spal
The Deadline: As of Saturday evening, President Trump has given Tehran 48 hours to "fully open, without threat" the Strait of Hormuz.
The Threat: If the Strait remains paralyzed, the U.S. has threatened to "obliterate" Iranian power plants, starting with the largest facilities.
The Dubai Impact: This has triggered a fresh wave of panic at Al Maktoum International (DWC). Families who were "waiting it out" are now flooding the airport, fearing that a U.S. strike on the Iranian mainland will lead to an unconstrained retaliatory "carpet-drone" attack on Dubai’s desalination plants. |
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03-22-26 spal
| Saudi analyst claims the ultimate nightmare for Iran: If Saudi Arabia enters the war, they will activate a defense pact with Pakistan and rally 50 Muslim nations against Tehran. A massive regional escalation could be imminent. |
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03-22-26 spal
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central HQ Spokesperson:
“If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy infrastructure, information technology systems, and desalination facilities belonging to the United States and the regime in the region will be targeted.” |
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03-22-26 victor
| If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP |
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03-22-26 savo
carib... this long report explains why it is very unimportant which barbudo is at the top (given that there is plenty of supply of them and they all think alike)
you can go directly to "How this Started"
https://x.com/radigancarter/status/2035073252134129757?s=48&t=JHX4_bRzg43q7__yG__aUw |
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