Iran

Welcome to the Precious Metals Bug Forums

Welcome to the PMBug forums - a watering hole for folks interested in gold, silver, precious metals, sound money, investing, market and economic news, central bank monetary policies, politics and more.

Why not register an account and join the discussions? When you register an account and log in, you may enjoy additional benefits including no Google ads, market data/charts, access to trade/barter with the community and much more. Registering an account is free - you have nothing to lose!



Four weeks ago Saudi Arabia told Iran it would never allow its airspace or territory to be used for attacks. The Crown Prince personally called the Iranian President to deliver that message. It was published by the Saudi Press Agency on January 28.

Today the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement that erases every word of that call.

The Kingdom “condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the treacherous Iranian aggression.” It calls the missile strikes a “flagrant violation of the sovereignty” of the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan. It pledges “full solidarity” with every attacked nation. And then the line that changes everything: Saudi Arabia is “placing all its capabilities to support them in all measures they take.”

All its capabilities. All measures.

That is not diplomatic language. That is a blank check written in the middle of a war. Whatever the UAE decides to do, Saudi Arabia just said it will support. Whatever Bahrain’s response, Saudi will back it. Whatever Jordan, Qatar, or Kuwait determines is necessary, Riyadh just pledged everything it has.

One month ago Saudi Arabia was Iran’s diplomatic shield in the Gulf. The kingdom that brokered the 2023 rapprochement with Tehran. The country that told Washington it would not participate. The monarchy that built its entire post-Vision 2030 foreign policy on balancing between Washington and Tehran without choosing.

Iran forced the choice this morning by firing missiles at Riyadh.

AFP correspondents confirmed explosions in the Saudi capital. The kingdom that spent three years rebuilding ties with Tehran just had Iranian ballistic missiles in its airspace. The country that told America it would stay neutral just watched its sovereignty violated by the same regime it was trying to protect from American strikes.

This is the strategic catastrophe Iran’s leadership failed to game out. Every war-game in Tehran assumed the Gulf states would remain neutral or at worst close their airspace. Every IRGC calculation assumed Saudi Arabia would pressure Washington for restraint. Every diplomatic channel Iran maintained through Oman and Qatar assumed those relationships would survive a military exchange.

None of those assumptions survived contact with Iranian missiles landing in sovereign Gulf territory.

Iran attacked the UAE. One civilian dead in Abu Dhabi from debris. Intercepts confirmed by the Emirati defense ministry. Iran attacked Qatar, the country that hosted its diplomatic back channels. Intercepted, zero damage, confirmed by Qatar’s Interior Ministry. Iran attacked Kuwait, neutral for thirty years. Missiles dealt with in Kuwaiti airspace per KUNA. Iran attacked Jordan, which shot down two ballistic missiles. And Iran attacked Saudi Arabia, the one country whose neutrality was keeping the entire regional balance from collapsing.

The Saudi statement warns of “grave consequences of continuing to violate the sovereignty of nations.” It demands the international community “take all firm measures to confront Iranian violations.” This is the language of a state preparing legal and political justification for what comes next.

Iran did not just retaliate against Israel this morning. Iran turned every neutral state in the Gulf into an adversary with a single salvo. The coalition that Washington spent months trying to build and could not assemble, Tehran assembled in one morning by attacking everyone simultaneously.

The next 72 hours will be defined by what “all capabilities” and “all measures” means when translated from Arabic diplomatic language into military coordination between six countries that now share a common enemy they did not have yesterday.
 


They want you to watch the bombs on TV.

They DON’T want you to see what Trump is REALLY doing behind the scenes.

Oil prices are SKYROCKETING.

Gold is EXPLODING.Bitcoin is CRASHING.

The DOW is in freefall.

The old fiat system is COLLAPSING — and Trump PLANNED it this way.

Iran was the Deep State’s last piggy bank. Their last source of black money. Their last lifeline. Trump just cut it off.

While the world watches the missiles, the Quantum Financial System is being activated. Gold-backed currency is replacing the corrupt Federal Reserve dollar.This isn’t just a war on Iran. This is Trump’s war on the CENTRAL BANKS. He’s not just destroying their military arm — he’s destroying their MONEY.

The Deep State is panicking because they know: when the smoke clears, their entire financial empire will be GONE.

Trump didn’t start a war. He ended one. The 100-year war of the bankers against the people.


FWIW
 
searcher

Post in thread 'Business, Commodities & Shipping News 2026'

Is the Strait of Hormuz Open? | What Impact Will This Have on Shipping? | Hormuz Data | US Sealift​

Feb 28, 2026 What's Going on With Shipping - Maritime Industry Today
The US and Israel initiation of Operation Epic Fury has led to a call by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to close the Strait of Hormuz. We examine the data coming from the ships traversing the region and the alerts being sent out by various maritime organizations to shipping. We also discuss how this will impact the global tanker market and if the US is moving large ground and support forces into the...
 
So much crapola about the Strait of Hormuz all over the interwebs.

True skinny...........

 


For those crashing out, and unable/unwilling to understand the Trump Administration's rationale here:

Over the past 125 years, the British Empire has maintained a strategic stranglehold on the Middle East through a calculated policy of geopolitical and financial destabilization. Operating on the imperial maxim of geopolitics and "divide and rule," British policymakers have systematically manipulated religious and ethnic tensions to prevent the emergence of sovereign, industrialized nation-states in the region.

A primary mechanism for this destabilization was the artificial redrawing of Middle Eastern borders following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Through the secret Sykes-Picot Accord and the subsequent Treaty of Sèvres, the British and French carved up the region into colonial mandates, ensuring that countries like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine were designed with built-in ethnic and religious conflicts. To manage this volatile arrangement, British intelligence utilized operatives like T.E. Lawrence and Aubrey Herbert as specialists to steer diverse Middle Eastern proxy movements and keep the region in a "chronic state of shipwreck". The creation of modern Middle Eastern borders and states was intended to serve as a perpetual irritant, keeping local populations at each other's throats as pawns in a much larger imperial game.

Iran, historically known as Persia, has been a central target of these British imperial designs. As early as 1907, King Edward VII orchestrated the Anglo-Russian Entente, which explicitly divided Iran into spheres of influence and neutralized its autonomy to check rival powers. Financial warfare was weaponized alongside diplomacy; for instance, in 1911, the British issued a major loan to Persia using the nation's own opium revenues as collateral, effectively hooking the state into colonial debt. The British oligarchy also maintained control over Iran's vast resources through allied institutions like the British Bank of the Middle East.

Following World War II, the British desperately sought to retain their grip on Middle Eastern oil reserves to underwrite their financial empire. When figures like Italian leader Enrico Mattei attempted to negotiate fair, independent energy deals with Middle Eastern nations, including Iran, the British Foreign Office viewed him as a mortal threat to their colonial relationships and oil control. Mattei was ultimately assassinated in a plot with heavy British fingerprints.

Today, the enduring conflicts in the Middle East, including the hostility between Iran and Israel, are direct outgrowths of this old European strategy of divide and rule. Modern globalist factions, aligned with British banking and intelligence networks, have continued to stoke these proxy wars to prevent Eurasian economic integration. By hyping threats like the "Shia Crescent" and weaponizing sanctions, these forces aim to keep Iran isolated and the region chaotic. The perpetual threat of Iranian nuclear enrichment has served as a convenient "bogeyman" to justify endless intervention and keep the military-industrial complex funded.

The British and their allies understand that if major regional powers were allowed to stabilize and independently develop their oil and infrastructure—such as the massive rail and energy corridors currently being built by Russia and China through Iran—the City of London's financial control over global energy markets would collapse.

End British meddling, restore order to the region.
 


With war in Iran in the news, it's time for one of my favorite little-known facts of military history:

The very first link-up of UK/Commonwealth and Soviet ground forces during WWII was not somewhere in the middle of Germany in 1945, but was instead when the two nations invaded Iran in 1941 to prevent Iran from becoming an ally of the Germans.

It was called "Operation Countenance." It took place in August of 1941.

The UK/Commonwealth forces invaded in the west of Iran from Iraq, and also into the eastern side of Iran from India. The Soviets invaded Iran's northern border from adjoining Soviet territory.

The fight was quick and overwhelming as the Allies achieved total surprise. British and Soviet troops met somewhere in the middle, the Shah and the Iranian Army surrendered, and the UK and the USSR jointly held Iran until 1946.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom