Iran
Senior Chinese Military Officers Join Iran In Delivering "Punch" To U.S., Propose Selling Treasuries As Arms Sales Punishment
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/09/2010 14:51 -0500And you were worried about Iran. China's People Liberation Army has come out and openly said that the nuclear option, i.e., selling US Treasuries, is now on the table and should be exercised as "punishment" for U.S.' arms sales to Taiwan. China undoubtedly realizes that this is a prime example of sado-masochism as the resultant plunge in Treasuries that would follow would hurt the US certainly, but also have a "mild to quite mild" impact on China's $700 (and likely much greater) UST holdings. Game theory 101 just got interesting.
More Posturing Or Actual Threat? Iran Warns It Will Deliver A "Punch" To Stun The West On February 11
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/09/2010 10:45 -0500While Iran is second in posturing only to North Korea, adding a geopolitical threat to an already simmering liquidity fire is certainly never a good thing to a market engrossed by yet another short squeeze. The Telegraph reports that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
The Real Iraqi Crude Story (Hint: It Ain't Iran)
Submitted by Marla Singer on 12/22/2009 09:55 -0500Sadly, media misfeasance (or malfeasance) has become such a common experience that it begins to look like a go-to story on Zero Hedge during slow news cycles. All we can say is that despite its increasingly droll repetition, we think media degradation in all its forms an important issue. So when, just for instance, the mainstream media jumps all over the Iranian "invasion" of Iraq to seize oil wells, despite the fact that the seizure of the well itself is only one of a rather unremarkable series of similar incidents in exactly the same disputed area going back years, and at the same time totally ignores the much more serious news of terrorist attacks on Iraqi pipelines that actually halt about 400,000 barrels per day of crude flow, well, we are just not that surprised anymore. One has to go to Alsumaria, Iraq's satellite channel, to find this story today.
On Iran, oil prices and how the Hajj f$#/ed Iran
Submitted by Cheeky Bastard on 10/28/2009 13:04 -0500Now, most of you know what happened to the oil prices, and where that lead us. Now multiply that by 10, and you will have a pretty good picture of the economy we will have IF, yet another time, a dark side of that what constitutes Humanity wins.
Breaking: Iran Says It Will Soon Exclude The Dollar From The Country's Foreign Revenues And Reserves
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/16/2009 20:52 -0500Developing story from BNO. Quotes state media reports.
Attack on Iran... or Market Noise? (Noise, Probably).
Submitted by Marla Singer on 10/16/2009 10:48 -0500
Options on Light Sweet Crude Oil Futures rank among the more obscure (and illiquid) instruments you can actually trade. Derivative^2's aren't exactly the sort of investment you would expect amateurs to trade (or even recognize), in fact. Actually, it's hard for even pros to find. (Try pulling it up on your Bloomberg if you don't already know the symbol). Why then has (have) someone(s) been accumulating November $100 calls (which expire in just over 30 days) in quite some size? Just a quick look at even incomplete volume data easily shows 70,000 calls changing hands over the last 30 days, half of them in the last two weeks and 12,595 on Wednesday.
Tracking Events In Iran By Twitter
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2009 18:36 -0500For all curious about events in Iran who have access to Twitter, especially now that western journalists have all been deported, please follow persiankiwi
Some of his most recent tweets below:
khamenei website is back online - waas hacked before - #Iranelection
2 minutes ago from webwere attacked in streets by mob on motorbikes with batons - firing guns into air - streetfires all over town - roads closed; #Iranelection
4 minutes ago from web




