Anonymous Insiders are Getting Rich Off the Iran War. Here’s How it Works.

On Monday the 23rd of March, the world held its collective breath waiting for the US to deliver on an ultimatum. Donald Trump had given Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and if that didn't happen, Trump had promised to obliterate Iranian power plants.

Iran, for its part, had said that if this happened, it would target energy and desalination infrastructure across the region.

This would have been the single greatest escalation in the war so far, and if it had happened, the Middle East would look even worse than it does today. Fewer prices would have spiked even more than they already have, and stock markets would have crashed soon after. In fact, Asian stock markets had already fallen sharply in anticipation of what was coming.