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June 22, 2025– U.S B-2 bombers “obliterate” Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, as President Trump follows through with earlier threats. Today marks a dramatic escalation of recent events, with real human and financial consequences [source: Reuters, AP News, The Guardian]
What just happened?
In the early hours in Iran, U.S aircraft bombed three key nuclear sites – the first strike in Iran by the American military in decades [source: AP News, The Guardian] President Trump declared the operation a “very successful attack” having deployed the military to restrict Iran’s nuclear capabilities and avoid further warfare [source: Reuters] Domestic and international reactions were mixed. While some called the attacks dangerous and unconstitutional, they were certainly decisive. [Source: The Guardian] President Trump later said in a public address: “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier” [Source: AlJazeera]
Financial Fallout: Oil, Inflation & everyday Costs
In the age of everyday people becoming desensitized to the endless news coverage of warfare, the effect that this could have on the general global population should not be underestimated. Energy bills, food prices, or grocery receipts- you may not have felt the blast, but you might feel it in your pocket.
- Oil prices rose modestly (~1%) following the attacks, indicating investor caution. Fears of escalation are circulating, but the market seems to be waiting to see what happens next before pricing in risk tolerance – especially regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
- The Strait of Harmuz, a critical chokepoint off Iran’s coast, which sees over 20 million barrels (approximately 20% of the world’s oil supply) pass daily, is perilously close to causing global disruption. [Source: U.S Energy Information Administration]
The inevitable jump in oil prices, should we see the Strait of Hormuz compromised, affects far more than just petrol prices.
- Transportation and shipping: higher fuel prices =higher delivery, flight and personal travel costs.
- Manufacturing: oil features in almost every supply chain, from pharmaceuticals to textiles
- Plastics and packaging: petroleum derivatives are needed for plastic production, impacting everything from electronics to food containers
- Fertilizer and agriculture: could drive up food costs with the industry heavily reliant on petrochemicals.
In short, we could see the slowing of economic growth and higher prices for the consumer, leading to central banks introducing tighter policies. For the average person, this could translate to more expensive fuel, volatility in pensions linked to global markets, higher inflation, delays in interest rate cuts, and higher mortgage prices. Market reactions were cautious but evident of increasing panic, with defence stocks rallying and the tech sector dipping. Gold climbed, as investors relocated to safe-haven assets.
Why Does the Strait of Hormuz Matter So Much?
It’s a sea passage between Iran and Oman, measuring 21 miles wide, and is the sole route for oil exports from the middle-east to reach the global markets and supply chains. 1 in 5 barrels of oil consumed worldwide are produced in countries including Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq and the UAE – all of which require transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has already threatened to blockade should the conflict escalate. [Source: Reuters]. While we wait to see their next move, it’s worth noting that even rumours can move markets.
Moral and Emotional Undercurrents
This story isn’t just about geopolitics – it’s about real people.
Western audiences watch events unfold through livestreams, social media posts, and stock charts. There remain very real ways that this conflict could impact our day-to-day lives from a financial and political standpoint, but it’s critical that in times like these, we don’t overlook the emotional weight they carry.
While the U.S. may have now laid down the greatest marker of all in this growing conflict, it’s clear that civilians of countries 6,000 miles away from the White House are paying the highest price. Missile alerts in Israel, power outages in Iran, and thousands of lives disrupted, displaced or ended – these are all parts of a reality not directly experienced in the West. For audiences in the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the world, there’s often a sense of emotional detachment. But this war is not cinema – it’s material, human, and real.
What You Can Actually Do (Without Doomscrolling):
You don’t need to switch off – but you can change how you engage. It can be difficult to know how to consume the news logically but not coldly, keeping in mind the tangible changes we could see in the near future.
– Keep up to date, but limit emotional overload
– Review your pension/ISA allocations for exposure to vulnerable sectors
– Track oil prices and interest rates which will shape your bills, fuel, and shopping baskets
Control, Conspiracy & Strategic Narrative
From a global awareness point of view, we must also consider other perspectives. Why is this happening now? Who benefits from escalating a war in this region? Why are defense contractors, cyber firms, and energy companies profiting while the rest of the world braces for even higher costs of living?
With the heightened global security risks that come with a war spanning two continents, comes more justification for increasing surveillance, cyber controls, and centralized management of trade and energy. Could the idea of non-stop war be growing into a business model?
Final Thought
This isn’t just a story about missiles falling. It’s about the economic, political, and social dominoes they knock over. Markets profit from volatility, civilians don’t get a say, and we appear to be approaching a critical point in the near- and mid-future of potentially worldwide warfare.
Maybe it’s not just about what happens next, but why, and how, it’s already happening.
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Can you see the financial patterns emerging behind the geopolitical headlines? Do the real causes of rising prices feel disconnected with what you’re being told? Share your thoughts below, and help demystify the headlines.
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Between the bombing of Iran on Israel’s behalf, and the Big Bill not passing, IMO, it’s gotten Trump mired and could potentially boost the Dems in ’26.
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Since 2009 Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009
Chapter 5.
* leave it to Bibi to strike Iran.
Pg. 89: The Plan To Allow Israel to Strike IRAN
The authors are deeply grateful for the financial assistance from the
Smith Richardson Foundation, the Crown Family Foundation, and oth-
ers in the drafting and publication of this study.
The goal of an air campaign would be to obliter-
ate much or all of Iran’s nuclear program, which
is spread over a number of major nuclear energy
related sites, on the assumption that any of them
could be used to develop weapons.
The list of targets
would likely include at least the well-known nuclear
research reactor at Bushehr, a range of locations re-
lated to Iran’s uranium processing and enrichment
program, and the Arak plutonium separation plant,
as well as sites believed to be involved in producing
warheads or other components for nuclear weap-
ons.
It might also include other targets involved in
developing Iran’s long-range missile force, which is
the most obvious method Iran would have of using
nuclear weapons should it acquire them.
If all of these targets were successfully destroyed,
such a military operation might delay Iran’s attain-
ment of a nuclear weapon by a decade or more.
After Israel’s 1981 Osiraq raid, Saddam Husayn
was unable to build a “basement bomb” over the
following decade (although by the time of Opera-
tion Desert Storm in 1991, he had come close).
Such a lengthy delay might provide enough time
for Iran’s imperfect political process to produce a
new leadership before the existing one could be created-
ate a bomb surreptitiously.
A more modest (or less successful) American or
Israeli aerial campaign would create havoc in the
Iranian nuclear program but would not necessarily
accomplish the physical annihilation of all facilities.
Since 2009 Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009
Chapter 5.
* leave it to Bibi to strike Iran.
Pg. 89: The Plan To Allow Israel to Strike IRAN
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
The authors are deeply grateful for the financial assistance from the
Smith Richardson Foundation, the Crown Family Foundation, and oth-
ers in the drafting and publication of this study.
What was in the Iran nuclear deal and why did Trump withdraw the US from it? – ABC7 Los Angeles
https://abc7.com/post/what-was-iran-nuclear-deal-did-trump-withdraw-us/16796863/
Nearly 10 years ago, the United States and other world powers reached a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran.
Known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, the deal followed two years of negotiations. Then-President Barack Obama, who campaigned on resolving the Iranian nuclear threat, called the issue the “most consequential foreign policy debate that our country has had since the invasion of Iraq.”
Two years after the deal went into effect, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear accord, in one of the most significant foreign policy actions during his first term as president.
Iran’s nuclear program is at the heart of its conflict with Israel, which has been engaged in aerial strikes with Iran in the days since a surprise attack on Tehran that Israeli officials said killed several nuclear scientists as well as high-ranking military leaders.
Here’s what to know about the Iran nuclear deal, which is now “essentially defunct,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
What was in the deal?
The JCPOA, which imposed restrictions on Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program in exchange for sanctions relief, was signed on July 14, 2015. It was agreed to by Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — as well as Germany and the European Union.
The JCPOA was designed to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program would be exclusively peaceful and provided for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions in order to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
“It blocks every possible pathway Iran could use to build a nuclear bomb while ensuring — through a comprehensive, intrusive, and unprecedented verification and transparency regime — that Iran’s nuclear program.
remains exclusively peaceful moving forward,” Obama’s White House said at the time.
Under the 159-page deal, Iran “significantly reduced its nuclear program and accepted strict monitoring and verification safeguards to ensure its program is solely for peaceful purposes,” the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation said.
“In exchange, Iran received economic sanctions relief from nuclear-related sanctions” only after the International Atomic Energy Agency verified Tehran had completed certain requirements under the deal.
The deal went into effect on Jan. 16, 2016, after the IAEA verified that Iran had completed steps, including shipping 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium out of the country, dismantling and removing two-thirds of its centrifuges and allowing for more extensive international inspections of its nuclear facilities.
The U.S. and many European nations lifted oil and financial sanctions and released about $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
If all parties adhered to the deal, experts held that it likely would have prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon for more than a decade, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Should Iran try to build a nuclear weapon, sanctions would go back into effect.
Many of the restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program “have expiration dates,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations, noting for example that centrifuge restrictions would be lifted after 10 years and limits on how much low-enriched uranium Iran can possess after 15 years.
Some of the deal’s opponents faulted these so-called sunset provisions, saying they would only delay Iran building a bomb while sanctions relief would allow it to underwrite terrorism in the region,” the organization said.
Israel was among those who opposed the agreement, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it a “historic mistake” at the time.
Why did Trump drop out of the deal?
Trump campaigned prior to his first election on pulling the U.S. out of the deal, and on May 8, 2018, he did just that, terminating U.S. participation in the JCPOA and reimposing economic sanctions on Iran.
Trump argued at the time that the deal was so “horrible” it had to be discarded to move forward.
“It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement,” he said.
“The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen.”
The Trump administration said at the time that Iran “negotiated the JCPOA in bad faith, and the deal gave the Iranian regime too much in exchange for too little.”
Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal after ignoring the advice of America’s allies, who had urged him to stay in the agreement and build upon it. The leaders of France, Germany and the U.K. noted their “regret and concern” at Trump’s decision, calling on Iran to maintain its commitments under the deal.
What’s happened since?
After Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in January 2020, the Iranian government announced it would no longer abide by any of the operational restraints on its nuclear program under the Iran nuclear deal.
In early 2023, the IAEA reported they had detected traces of uranium at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility that was enriched to “near weapons-grade level that Iran claimed was accidental.”
“Since the United States abrogated the deal and Iran in turn stopped honoring some of its commitments, Iran has reduced its breakout time — the amount of time it would take to accumulate enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon — from more than a year to about 3-4 months, although the IAEA remains on the ground to verify the peaceful nature of its nuclear program,” the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation said.
As some provisions of the JCPOA were set to expire in October 2023, former President Joe Biden’s administration imposed new sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Biden sought to negotiate a return to the JCPOA. However, in the last few months of his term last year, a State Department spokesperson said they were “far away” from returning to negotiations with Iran.
During his second term, Trump has threatened potential military action against Iran to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.
In recent weeks, delegations from Iran and the U.S. have met for multiple rounds of nuclear negotiations, though talks have stalled amid the conflict between Israel and Iran.
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read a statement from Trump in which the president said he believes there’s a “substantial chance of negotiations” in the near future.
He also said he will make a decision “whether or not to go” within the next two weeks, though Leavitt did not clarify what that meant.
Trump Alerted IRAN Prior to the Strikes.
There was NO sneak attack in IRAN.
The Trump administration tipped off Iran ahead of America’s strikes on three nuclear sites and told them it would be a “one-off” attack, according to a report from Amwaj Media.
BIG: High-ranking Iranian source tells @amwajmedia that Trump team gave advance notice of bombings of nuclear sites and insisted they’re intended as “one-off”.
Signs of Trump seeking repeat of Jan 2020 (Soleimani killing=>symbolic Iranian retaliation).https://t.co/wDfPbkKkET
— Mohammad Ali Shabani (@mashabani) June 22, 2025
From Amwaj.media, “Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as US insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off'”:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-06-23-us-gave-iran-advance-notice-of-strike.html
The story: US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.”
This comes as Amwaj.media has learned that Washington notified Tehran of the strikes.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian political source confirmed that the Trump administration on June 21 conveyed that it did not seek an all-out confrontation, and only intended to strike the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites.
Importantly, the senior source also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with “most” of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.
Given that Iran is said to have received prior notice along with a private communication from the US that it does not seek a broader conflict, it could be that Trump seeks a repeat of the events of Jan. 2020.
The latter entailed a largely symbolic Iranian ballistic missile attack on American bases in Iraq over Trump’s authorization of the assassination of then-Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.
“A senior Iranian source told Reuters that most of the highly enriched uranium stored at the Fordow nuclear facility was moved
Hi Rhoda,
Looks like we are nearly at WW3.
My advice would be to stock up on food and drinks.
Corn flakes and similar dried food lasts for years.
Our Dual passport MP’s, have closed the country UK, down.
Bit by bit they have stolen all our worth, just like they did with other countries.
We have to pray and rely on Jesus now.
I think that Catherine Austin-Fitts is correct in saying that the war cycle may be a prelude to the going direct reset and continuous surveillance state. When control of financial transactions take hold, it will be game over for our old way of life.
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As explained here in. The bombing took out the the dimond exchange and a huge amount of Wall Street backend: yes Israel https://rumble.com/v6v46pp-june-19th-2024-countrywide-coordinator-training-with-anna-von-reitz.html
Oops! CIA meant to say Klaus Schwab cyber attack “NOT” IRAN
Klaus Schwab: Cyberattack Worse than COVID-19 Crisis – Power Grid Down, Banking Offline Ice Age Farmer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKRvS-C04o
What Are They Hiding? Judicial Watch Fights Pam Bondi and Kash Patel
Trump’s DOJ is still fighting to keep sealed
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
Judicial Watch has sued the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to unseal records from meetings between Twitter executives and the Biden FBI to censor the American people.
The lawsuit was filed in 2023 after the FBI ignored a FOIA request for the records of meetings between June 2020 and December 2022.
For some reason, Trump’s DOJ is still fighting against Biden’s censorship efforts, which specifically targeted conservatives.
What does that have to do with Iran ??
Trump Alerted IRAN Prior to the Strikes.
There was NO sneak attack in IRAN.
The Trump administration tipped off Iran ahead of America’s strikes on three nuclear sites and told them it would be a “one-off” attack, according to a report from Amwaj Media.
BIG: High-ranking Iranian source tells @amwajmedia that Trump team gave advance notice of bombings of nuclear sites and insisted they’re intended as “one-off”.
Signs of Trump seeking repeat of Jan 2020 (Soleimani killing=>symbolic Iranian retaliation).https://t.co/wDfPbkKkET
— Mohammad Ali Shabani (@mashabani) June 22, 2025
From Amwaj.media, “Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as US insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off'”:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-06-23-us-gave-iran-advance-notice-of-strike.html
The story: US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.”
This comes as Amwaj.media has learned that Washington notified Tehran of the strikes.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian political source confirmed that the Trump administration on June 21 conveyed that it did not seek an all-out confrontation, and only intended to strike the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites.
Importantly, the senior source also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with “most” of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.
Given that Iran is said to have received prior notice along with a private communication from the US that it does not seek a broader conflict, it could be that Trump seeks a repeat of the events of Jan. 2020.
The latter entailed a largely symbolic Iranian ballistic missile attack on American bases in Iraq over Trump’s authorization of the assassination of then-Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.
“A senior Iranian source told Reuters that most of the highly enriched uranium stored at the Fordow nuclear facility was moved
US airstrikes tells me which country is the very big boss on this planet.
It is not USA.
You mean, the real bully ?
It’s not Iran.
The country whose possession of nuclear weapons is a threat to world peace ?
It’s not Iran.
The country that deserves to be bombed and have its nuclear capabilities wiped out ?
It’s not Iran.
The country that everybody with eyes to see regards as the no.1 threat to peace, security and stability?
It’s not Iran.
I mean what I wrote.
You’re right, it´s not Iran, but it´s very near Iran.
Try to think, it won´t hurt you.
The USA is once again a colonial territory…this time, it’s Ishmael who controls us, just as you say. But ultimately Satan is in charge of all the carnage. He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning and continues his evil through his minions in positions of power. Make sure you are right with Jesus 🙏.
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One explanation of what might be happening.
Iran built a railway to China to sell oil in Yuan, bypassing USD. This is a threat to western vested interests. So the attack on Iran could be related to that.
Also, a Chief of Staff to Colin Powell (former US Secretary of State in 2002), said Mossad had taken over US Pentagon in 2002 (when the Iraq was invaded).
https://rumble.com/v6v7txr-putin-warns-trump-globalists-are-using-you-as-a-puppet-to-ignite-ww3.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
IRAN joined BRICS has 350 tons of gold is NOT part of the IMF banking cabal that paid off its debts.
The Rothschild family/Israel puppet control the money and want a one-world government IRAN was the last country of 7 to be attacked by the United States for the Rothschild family/Israel crime family
General Wesley Clark “7 Countries in 5 Years” [2007] – YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo6u9DpASp8
BBB lifts the Debt limit to unlimited money printing plus an additional 4 trillion in spending