Iran’s political class is not known for speaking like a cohort of day traders, but that is precisely the tone struck in recent weeks by Iranian parliament leader Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. His posts on X read less like the rhetoric one associates with a theocratic state than a particularly online macro newsletter. “Do the opposite,” he advised followers recently, treating statements by Donald Trump as a kind of reverse market indicator. Days earlier, Ghalibaf wrote: “They’ve spammed so much fake news trying to push energy prices down that the market’s just numb now. The real prices will show up anyway.”With the brisk and declarative tone of a trader on caffeine, one wonders if Wall Street might be his next posting.

Source: The Irish Times April 07, 2026 09:49 UTC