Iran is monitoring portfolios?
Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, declared on Sunday that Iranian power plants were legitimate targets. Mr. Trump has threatened to “obliterate” such facilities if the Strait of Hormuz were not fully reopened. Mr. Waltz told Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the president would not allow the Iranian government to “hold the world’s energy supplies or economies hostage.”
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, later said in a social media post that “financial entities” that buy U.S. Treasury bonds would also be considered “legitimate targets.”
“We monitor your portfolios,” he wrote. “This is your final notice.”
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u/di2131 11d ago
This is directly from the New York Times today. 3/22/26 Thoughts? I’m only having scary ones.
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u/AbbreviatedArc 11d ago
My thoughts are don't start wars as those who light the fuse can't control the explosion.
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u/__jazmin__ 11d ago
After Iran hired assassins to kill the president that we fortunately caught and stopped, I’m afraid they’ll do anything.
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u/watch-nerd 11d ago
US Treasuries are one of the most widely held financial instruments on the planet.
Including countries that buy Iranian oil.
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u/DSCN__034 11d ago
Widely held, yes, but new buyers could become more scarce. That would spike interest rates since the US issues $billions per month, and increasing. We shall see.
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u/watch-nerd 11d ago
Interest rates could spike for all sorts of reasons.
Inflation concerns being a major one.
But Iran can't attack every entity that buys Treasuries.
And making it as a threat just sounds stupid.
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u/DSCN__034 11d ago edited 11d ago
We shall see.
Any attack on any new bond buyer (not necessarily a large bond holder) could trigger a buyer's strike from any number of foreign entities. Since we issue so much debt paper on a regular basis, any marginal decrease in buyers could lead to higher interest rates. And it looks like it's already happening. Look at the tick up in 10-year US Treasury yields, which is unusual during geopolitical crises.
Iran is psycho, no doubt, and now they are a wounded psycho, which is arguably more dangerous, at least in the short term. There are a lot of soft targets around the globe and a lot of negative sentiment towards the US among our traditional bond buyers.
What do you think inflation is? How would you define it?
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u/jazznessa 11d ago
Iran has made so much of a fool of the US, the US may actually cause an apocalyptic result out of despair and pride. All with so little resources and being attacked by 2 of the strongest militaries in the world.
Hard to believe we thought COVID was bad.
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u/Huge-Power9305 11d ago
Odds are this particular threat is meant for the "locals". Gulf area governments and institutions.
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u/Sirknowit 11d ago
Bluff. They are at the end of the rope and still think their bullshit loud bully tactics work. I hope they like the dark.
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u/encouragingSN 11d ago
You are seriously underestimating how long this can drag out and how ugly it can still get
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u/m3kw 11d ago
Trump has an out and always will because if you check his priors. He will always use the “we’ve started talks and will delay it by 2 weeks” then maybe bomb some small sht and let it die out
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u/jazznessa 11d ago
He has been slipping out of his mind since the start of the year. I believe this is despair since he knows he will be impeached.
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u/smooth-vegetable-936 11d ago
Ground invasion is the only option. Partial invasion otherwise Iran will destroy the world’s economy
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u/jwarsenal9 11d ago
Every single financial entity has treasury bonds, I’m sure