by drjmcurtis | Mar 12, 2026
LOS ANGELES (oc).–President Donald Trump said March 4 that he would escalate the war with Iran if they don’t open up the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday two drone boats attacked Thai-flagged tankers, setting them ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. Tankers from the...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES (OC).–Hitting a Thai-fl;aged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran claimed they would send oil to 200 a barrel, playing on world public opinion to stop President Donald Trump and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s war with Iran. With daily...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 10, 2026
los angeles (oc).–President Donald Trump reassured markets yesterday saying the Iran war was near complete, apparently abandoning any hope of regime change. Appointing the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei shows that the mullah regime has no...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 9, 2026
LOS ANGELES (OC).–Iran’s so-called Assembly of Experts picked 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khemenei, as Iran’s next Supreme Leader. Kept out of the public for most his career, the younger Khamenei is considered even more hard line...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 8, 2026
LOS ANGELES (OC).–President Donald Trump has some big decisions next week on the Iran War, not in its tenth day causing unintended consequences for U.S. and world oil markets. Oil sparked Friday, March 6 to over $90 per barrel, causing pump prices in the U.S....