War Breaks Out With Iran — Are You Ready?

As President Trump works to convince his “friend” Vladimir Putin to accept his Ukraine ceasefire deal, a whole new war is breaking out with Iran. 

Trump has a checkered history with Iran going back to his first term, when he pulled out of an existing nuclear deal, assassinated one of the country’s top generals, and threatened its president with nuclear annihilation. 

Trump’s second term hasn’t gotten off to a much better start.

On Saturday, he announced a series of airstrikes on an Iranian proxy group in Yemen. The strikes reportedly killed 53 people and injured another 100.

This was after the Iranian-backed group — the Houthis — resumed attacks on shipping vessels affiliated with Israel and its allies. 

The Houthis had targeted the U.S. Navy and commercial ships with hundreds of rocket and drone attacks from October 2023 to January of this year, when Israel entered into a ceasefire with Hamas.

However, Israel has since halted food and aid deliveries from reaching Gaza. Hence the resumption of the shipping attacks and Trump’s response.

"To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!" Trump blared on his social media platform.

He then shifted focus to Iran with a warning…

"Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and we won’t be nice about it!"

It’s not just about rebel groups and shipping lanes, either. Trump has been leaning heavily on Iran since returning to office.

On February 4, he issued an executive order to restore “maximum pressure on Iran” and apply new economic sanctions in an effort to “drive Iran’s oil exports to zero.” 

And two weeks ago, he petitioned Iran’s leadership for negotiations on a new nuclear deal.

Trump summed up that letter as saying, “I hope you’re going to negotiate, because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing,”

Unsurprisingly, the letter was not well received. 

“Some coercive governments insist on negotiations,” Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. “Such negotiations aren’t aimed at solving issues. Their aim is to exert their dominance and impose what they want."

These negotiations, Khamenei said, are “a means to impose new demands” that Iran will “definitely not fulfill.” 

The ayatollah also said that while Iran is not seeking war, if America and its allies in the region make “the wrong move,” Iran’s response would be “decisive and certain, and the one who will suffer the most will be the U.S."

That sentiment was echoed by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who said Iran would not negotiate with the United States so long as it’s being threatened.

"It is unacceptable for us that they give orders and make threats,” Pezeshkian said. “I won’t even negotiate with you. Do whatever the hell you want." 

So it’s fair to say negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program may be over before they even begin. 

That leaves us with the grisly prospect of an actual war with Iran — something investors must prepare for. 

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Fight on,

Jason Simpkins

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