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On January 9th, we wrote that Greenland was theater. That the real target was Iran. And that oil would cross $100. Brent was trading below $70. Nobody was talking about Tehran. Five months later: the largest air campaign in Middle East history, the Strait of Hormuz closed since February 28th, Brent averaging $107 in May. And today, Trump announced the next step on Truth Social: “We will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.” Now read what we published in The Iran Playbook, days before his announcement: “Phase 3: The ‘Limited’ Operation. Seizure of Qeshm Island. Possibly Kharg Island. Framed as a maritime security operation. ‘Protecting critical energy infrastructure.’ Never called an invasion.” Word for word. The island. The framing. The vocabulary. This is not luck. It is pattern recognition. Every American war follows the same script: a provocation, a “defensive” response, a “limited” operation that becomes permanent. Vietnam started with advisors. Iraq started with liberation. Iran is starting with an island. An occupation that cannot be defended without escalating, and cannot be abandoned without humiliation. This is the moment the world change. The socio-economic shockwaves of a permanent war in the Gulf will hit every economy on the planet: energy, food, shipping, inflation, debt. America is dragging itself into a vortex with no exit. And it is dragging everyone else down with it.

On June 3, we predicted a MOU (which is not a peace deal) agreement at the start of the World Cup and a market bullish reversal and explained why , here:

Everyone is celebrating a peace deal. It’s not a peace deal. What’s being signed on June 19 in Geneva is a Memorandum of Understanding that opens 60 days of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. Friday they sign a commitment to negotiate peace. Not peace itself. Two completely different things. This is exactly what we projected. A pause aligned with the World Cup window. An MOU dressed up as victory for domestic consumption. “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” posted by the White House itself, the exact phrase Bush used on the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. The Iraq War lasted another 8 years after that banner. Meanwhile, on the ground: Israel is not a party to this agreement. The IDF ordered 29 villages evacuated in southern Lebanon the same day the deal was announced, many beyond the original invasion line. Defense Minister Katz swore the IDF will remain in southern Lebanon. Ben Gvir said “Trump’s agreement does not bind us.” The IDF is preparing an offensive on Nabatieh, a Hezbollah stronghold. The MOU says “permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon.” Israel is operating militarily in the exact theater the agreement covers, without being bound by it. Iran says the US agreed to release $25 billion in frozen assets. Trump says no cash. They’re already describing the same deal in incompatible terms. Iran has warned it will resume operations if Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue. The question is not whether they sign on Friday. They probably will. The question is what happens between Day 1 and Day 60 while Israel keeps advancing in Lebanon. Paris 1973. Oslo 1993. JCPOA 2015. Signed frameworks during active conflict where a principal military actor is not a signatory have a survival rate near zero. noodlesresearch.com/research/iran-…

Update on the Iran Playbook. The MoU is out. 14 clauses. The terms include a permanent ceasefire on all fronts including Lebanon, $300 billion in US-funded reconstruction for Iran, and the complete removal of Iran’s missile program and Hezbollah funding from the negotiating agenda. These are not negotiating positions. These are structural impossibilities. Netanyahu has killed every deal that approached this threshold. Congress has no mechanism to authorize reconstruction funding at this scale. The missile clause is a twenty-year red line for every institutional actor in Washington, from AIPAC to the Pentagon. The financial sequencing confirms it. Iran receives $12 billion in unfrozen assets before negotiations begin. Sanctions suspended. Blockade lifted within 30 days. If the framework collapses after 60 days, Iran retains all concessions. The US retains nothing. Neither government has released an official text. Competing versions are already circulating. Signing is scheduled for June 19th. Monday open: WTI at $80, down 5%. Brent at $83, lowest since March. Equities bid across the board, Nikkei +4.9%, Kospi +5.5%, S&P futures +1.1%. The war premium is being repriced on a document that has not been signed and may not exist in a single agreed version. This is Phase 1 of the Playbook. Cosmetic diplomacy. A framework with no enforcement. Oil eases. Markets exhale. Israel is still expanding in Lebanon. The World Cup runs until July 19th. Trump celebrated his 80th’s Birthday , the show must go on.

On January 9th, we wrote that Greenland was theater. That the real target was Iran. And that oil would cross $100. Brent was trading below $70. Nobody was talking about Tehran. Five months later: the largest air campaign in Middle East history, the Strait of Hormuz closed since February 28th, Brent averaging $107 in May. And today, Trump announced the next step on Truth Social: “We will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.” Now read what we published in The Iran Playbook, days before his announcement: “Phase 3: The ‘Limited’ Operation. Seizure of Qeshm Island. Possibly Kharg Island. Framed as a maritime security operation. ‘Protecting critical energy infrastructure.’ Never called an invasion.” Word for word. The island. The framing. The vocabulary. This is not luck. It is pattern recognition. Every American war follows the same script: a provocation, a “defensive” response, a “limited” operation that becomes permanent. Vietnam started with advisors. Iraq started with liberation. Iran is starting with an island. An occupation that cannot be defended without escalating, and cannot be abandoned without humiliation. This is the moment the world change. The socio-economic shockwaves of a permanent war in the Gulf will hit every economy on the planet: energy, food, shipping, inflation, debt. America is dragging itself into a vortex with no exit. And it is dragging everyone else down with it.

@Shtihmas11 It seems like that in 2026 conspiracy theorists were right about everything day by day

@criptopaul Guess we’re all conspiracy theorists now

So Russia and Putin was right, Biolabs really existed dni.gov/index.php/news…

@makeitrain69420 😂😂😂

@criptopaul His making peace deal with the aliens

The Pentagon just dropped alien files and it’s not even the weirdest thing on my timeline this morning🤷‍♂️

Here’s the new information from DNI. They admit that the US built and fund/support, over 40 labs in Ukraine, which house dangerous pathogens, which Russia claim are being used for bioweapon development. They are kind of admitting Putin and Russian MIL were right, to a degree. To me, I think this is the beginning stages of public disclosure about Covid being a US-funded experiment, and it very well may lead back to the labs in Ukraine. Some of these US-funded labs were studying bat coronaviruses in Ukraine, as early as 2014 via USIAD Project PREDICT. We have to tell the world that COVID was man-made, and we have to tell the world who made it. I think that process is now underway. It also tells me talks with Russia must be in a good place, because any deal with Russia, Putin is going to address the biolabs in Ukraine, as it has been one of Russia’s main talking points at the UN. I think this disclosure is related to a peace deal between Russia and the US/Ukraine.

Tulsi Gabbard: “Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci… lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported bio labs.” “Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.” Tulsi Gabbard has released and confirmed biolabs were being run without government approval and that politicians and public health officials lied, including under oath. But it’s time to hold people accountable. Merely releasing this information doesn’t really mean anything. Most of us already knew this. It’s time these people who lied under oath or to the American people spend time behind bars.

@SantiRavidlasPy @Polymarket here the need to open market for it

😳 ATENCIÓN: Vidente brasileña soñó con invasión extraterrestre en la Copa del Mundo, en el partido del 24/06 en Miami, en EE.UU. “Millones de personas serán llevadas… Estoy muy apavorada.” #Mundial2026

@vsrsus For real

The DR Congo arrival fits are pure aura.

We published the Iran Playbook on June 3. Phase 1: the World Cup window. ‘’Expected Cosmetic diplomacy. A framework with no enforcement. Oil eases. Markets exhale.’’ The World Cup opened yesterday. Today Trump told a crowd in Georgia that “we ended the war with Iran” and “they have agreed to never have a nuclear weapon.” At a tele-rally. For a Senate candidate. Not at the White House. Not with a signed document. At a phone call for Burt Jones. Hours later a senior Iranian official goes on MSNOW. Iran has not agreed to anything. Oil dropped. Stocks bounced. Billions moved on a deal that does not exist, again, for roughly the fortieth time. You would think this is the dystopian sci-fi era described in 90’ movies. It is , but more banal than expected, where apresident declares the end of a war at a campaign rally, the other side denies it on live television, and nobody blinks because this is just how it works now. Trump's statements are not meant to be true, they are meant to work, 70 million evangelicals in the heartland do not need the deal to be real. They need the story, markets believe it for 48 hours because the cost of not believing a presidential headline is too high for an algorithm, and the mainstream media doesn't believe it but has to cover it anyway.. With the SpaceX IPO cleared at $75 billion, the liquidity drain that crushed everything for two weeks is over. Markets get room to breathe now in coming weeks. Israel will continue to expand in Lebanon, while everyone is focused on WC. Then July 19. Final whistle. That is when the cover comes off… noodlesresearch.com/research/iran-…

@Jditibbiroshi ‘’But it will happen after the World Cup.’’

@Jditibbiroshi In fact I think so, my post read between the lines meant exactly this, we are not attacking you now, but sooner or later we will invade you and take your structures.

BREAKING: Trump just announced a ground invasion of Iran. As you already know, this is my theory since the begin. But it will happen after the World Cup.

@KobeissiLetter Basically you are a simple echo of Axios and Trump now. I remember you were able to maintain a minimum level of quality in your content in the past, now readers are practically flagging most of your automated posts as inaccurate.

BREAKING: President Trump says he has cancelled scheduled strikes on Iran and the time and place of a deal signing will be “announced shortly.”

you must be a mouthbreather to Trust any Trump headline regarding Iran lmao

@BarakRavid Its all fake like everything you say

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷Behind the scenes: Negotiations continued late into Wednesday night in Tehran as Qatari envoy Ali Al-Thawadi and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi worked to bridge the remaining gaps between the U.S. and Iran 🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷According to three sources briefed on the talks, the Qataris and the Iranians believed on Wednesday that they had reached an agreed-upon text that the U.S. would also accept

I tend to believe at this version. We frontrun all of Trump's communication today, as always, he’s so predictable.