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April 21 (Reuters) - Big fund managers and investors are pouring money into private credit fund managers and business development companies (BDCs) even as these firms face redemptions and scrutiny ​over their opaque portfolios.
Bond fund manager PIMCO became a talking point in ‌debt markets last week when it bought all of the $400 million of bonds sold by private credit firm Blue Owl Capital (OWL.N), opens new tab.
Other fund raisings have taken place, some via collateralised loan obligations and others via ​share placements and bond issues.
Golub Capital, which has huge exposure to the software services ​sector that investors worry about, launched a direct lending fund that raised ⁠approximately $320 million from 14 institutional investors.
More interestingly, exchange-traded funds investing in private credit and ​business development companies have drawn record inflows, even as concerns grow over redemption pressures and ​valuation risks in the asset class.
According to LSEG Lipper, 22 BDC funds received $868 million in the first quarter of the year, the biggest ever. The biggest flows were to the State Street IG Public & Private ​Credit ETF, which had inflows of about $700 million.
We’re not seeing in our flows what ​we’re seeing in the headlines,” said Brandon Rakszawski, head of product development at VanEck, referring to the ‌steady inflows ⁠into the asset manager’s two exchange-traded funds, one of which GPZ invests in alternative asset management firms such as Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab, KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab, Apollo Global Management (APO.N), opens new tab and Ares Management .
GPZ, or the VanEck Alternative Asset Manager ETF, has $214.8 million of assets under management, has seen no outflows in ​the last three months ​and received inflows ⁠of $110.06 million.
Doomsday headlines may be overstating the actual level of risk,” Rakszawski said. “Our flows are telling us a different story: that investors view ​this as an opportunity to invest at a discount to recent ​prices.”
Goldman Sachs ⁠Private Credit Corp. said it priced $750 million in 6.15% fixed-rate notes due in 2031 to pay down revolving credit facilities and diversify its funding.
StepStone's private credit fund raised $88.7 million in March ⁠and holds $3.19 ​billion in investments against $1.24 billion in debt.
BlackRock Private Credit ​Fund raised about $38 million in new institutional capital in early March 2026.
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Gold price slips for first weekly loss in five as oil surge lifts inflation fears. Rising yields and stronger dollar pressure the gold market outlook.
Spot Gold (XAUUSD) is holding on Friday after buyers stepped in to defend $4644.46 but this isn’t a recovery. It’s a pause. The same forces that pressured gold all week are still in place and the charts aren’t giving bulls much to work with. Keep reading for the levels and what needs to change to shift the bias.
Nearby resistance is the 50-day moving average at $4870.42. After a successful test of it on April 17, the market has produced a series of lower-highs and lower-lows, indicating the presence of sellers and the lack of buying interest.
At 12:32 GMT, XAUUSD is trading $4707.52, up $13.43 or +0.29%.
Our key value area is $4495.33 to $4401.84. This is where I think gold is going. Last week, it gave traders a chance to buy strength and play for a breakout over the 50-day moving average. When this move failed to materialize, bids got pulled and sellers took over.
The market is also trading on the weak side of a long-term pivot at $4744.34. If the selling pressure persists and $4644.46 is taken out then look for the move to possibly extend into the long-term 61.8% level at $4541.88.
Spot Brent Crude Oil jumped roughly 18% this week and held above $105 a barrel. That move is tied directly to the Strait of Hormuz situation and it’s creating a ceiling on Spot Gold (XAUUSD) that most people aren’t talking about clearly enough. Here’s the problem. Higher oil means higher inflation. Higher inflation means the Fed holds rates longer. The Fed holding rates longer keeps the dollar firm and pulls capital toward yield bearing assets. Gold sits in the middle of that chain and gets squeezed from both ends
Over the near-term I believe traders will be offered the opportunity to buy again, but this time in the value zone at $4495.33 to $4401.84. With the trend up according to the 200-day moving average at $4245.95, traders will see value using the 200-day moving average as their lean. Simply put, I’m looking for a clear buy the dip opportunity.
Last week gold had a shot at the 50-day moving average and couldn’t take it out. That’s the tell. When a market gets a clean look at resistance and stalls, bids get pulled and sellers move in. That’s exactly what happened and now gold is on track for its first weekly loss after four straight weeks of gains. The momentum shifted when that breakout failed and it hasn’t come back.
Gold is supposed to be the inflation hedge but that only works when rates are falling or expected to fall. Right now rates are going nowhere and oil above $100 is the reason why. The 10-Year U.S. Treasury yield is climbing and the U.S. Dollar Index is firming. Those two things together are enough to cap any rally in Spot Gold (XAUUSD) regardless of what the geopolitical picture looks like.
Physical demand out of India and China is picking up and premiums in India are tightening on supply constraints. That’s real demand and it doesn’t disappear because Treasury yields are rising. It provides a floor but right now it isn’t strong enough to override the rate and dollar headwinds hitting gold from the other direction.
I’m not interested in buying Spot Gold (XAUUSD) up here. The value zone at $4495.33 to $4401.84 is where I want to see buyers show up. The 200-day moving average at $4245.95 is the long-term anchor and as long as it holds the trend is up and the buy the dip structure is intact. That’s the trade I’m waiting for. A clean pullback into value with the 200-day MA as the lean and a defined exit if it fails.
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Admiral Samuel Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told two congressional panels this week that the military is running a live Bitcoin node for cybersecurity testing and views the protocol as a tool of national power in competition with China.
The House comments were the first public confirmation by a sitting US combatant commander that the military is directly participating in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network.
We have a node on the Bitcoin network right now," Paparo said, responding to questions from Rep. Lance Gooden. "We're not mining Bitcoin. We're using it to monitor, and we're doing a number of operational tests to secure and protect networks using the Bitcoin protocol.
A Bitcoin node is a computer that stores the full history of the blockchain and enforces the network's rules, relaying validated transactions across the peer-to-peer network. Unlike mining, it does not earn rewards and does not require specialized hardware
Running a node is how participants in Bitcoin verify the network state independently rather than trusting third parties. There are an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 publicly reachable full nodes on the network as of early 2026, with the real number likely higher because many operate behind firewalls
One node out of tens of thousands poses no threat to Bitcoin's independence or its resistance to any single party controlling it.
But a US military combatant command running that node is notable because Bitcoin's design has long been framed as a defense against takeover attempts by powerful governments, and INDOPACOM is the command responsible for US military operations across the Indo-Pacific, including the theater of strategic competition with China.
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US Secretary of Labour Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving her post in the administration of President Donald Trump, the White House has said.
Chavez-DeRemer is the third woman to leave the Trump administration since March, when the president fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the wake of federal immigration raids in Minnesota that led to the deaths of two protesters. Trump also ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month.
Chavez-DeRemer has done a “phenomenal job” protecting American workers and is set to “take a position in the private sector”, White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung said in a post on X late on Monday, announcing the labour secretary’s departure.
Keith Sonderling will take on the role of Acting Secretary of Labor,” Cheung added, referring to the current deputy labour secretary.
While Cheung did not give a reason for Chavez-DeRemer’s departure, the New York Post reported in January that she was under investigation for “pursuing an ‘inappropriate’ relationship with a subordinate” and drinking in her office during the work day.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the allegations.
From the beginning of her tenure, Chavez-DeRemer had some notable differences with other members of Trump’s inner circle.
She had voiced support for the pro-union Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), earning support for her nomination from some Democrats.
Her appointment was also seen as favoured by Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who notably spoke in support of Trump’s re-election campaign at the Republican National Convention in July 2024.
However, as the labour secretary, Chavez-DeRemer’s positions have more closely aligned with the Trump administration’s overall anti-regulatory policies, according to US media outlets. During her tenure as secretary, the Labor Department stalled on responding to calls for limits on silica exposure from Appalachian coal miners suffering from the occupational black lung disease.
Chavez-DeRemer is not the first top official to leave the Labor Department during Trump’s second term.
In August 2025, Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McEntarfer, who was appointed by previous President Joe Biden, after a report showed that hiring had slowed in July and was worse in May and June than had previously been reported
Chavez-DeRemer had supported the president’s move at the time.
“I support the President’s decision to replace Biden’s Commissioner and ensure the American People can trust the important and influential data coming from BLS,” Chavez-DeRemer said in a post on X following McEntarfer’s removal
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The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and rival M23 rebels have agreed to ease aid deliveries and release prisoners, as mediators push to resolve a years-long conflict that has persisted despite multiple peace deals.
The two sides announced the measures in a joint statement shared by the US Department of State on Saturday, following five days of talks in Switzerland.DRC government, M23 rebels commit to protect civilians, aid deliveries
“The parties agreed to refrain from any action that would undermine the principled delivery of humanitarian assistance within the territories impacted by the conflict,” said the statement
Both sides also pledged not to target civilians and to facilitate medical care for the wounded and sick as they noted progress on a protocol for humanitarian access and judicial protections
They agreed to release prisoners within 10 days as part of efforts “to continue building confidence”.
In addition, the parties signed a memorandum of understanding for a ceasefire monitoring mechanism that will “begin conducting surveillance, monitoring, verification, and reporting on the implementation of the permanent ceasefire between the parties”.
Since 2021, the M23, backed by Rwanda, has seized territory in eastern DRC, a region ravaged by more than 30 years of conflict
While the two sides signed a United States-brokered peace agreement in December, fighting has continued, most recently reaching the highland areas of South Kivu, according to media reports
In a statement last week, Human Rights Watch accused the parties of blocking aid deliveries and stopping civilians from fleeing the South Kivu highlands
“Civilians in South Kivu’s highlands are facing a dire humanitarian crisis and live in fear of abuses by all parties,” said Clementine de Montjoye, senior Great Lakes researcher at Human Rights Watch
The latest round of talks, held in the Swiss Riviera town of Montreux, included representatives from Qatar, the US, Switzerland, the African Union (AU) Commission, and Togo serving as the AU mediator.
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The International Energy Agency (IEA), a global energy watchdog, with several of the wealthiest countries as member nations, has announced the largest release of government oil reserves in its history, two weeks after the United States and Israel started their war on Iran with strikes on Tehran.
In retaliatory attacks, Tehran has launched strikes on Israel as well as US military assets and energy facilities in Gulf countries, and has closed the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery in the global oil supply chain, driving up crude prices to more than $100 per barrel.
“The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the IEA said in its monthly market report.
While the IEA’s 32 member nations appeared hesitant earlier in the week to tap into the strategic reserves, they ultimately announced they would release nearly 400 million barrels of emergency crude. That’s one-third of the grouping’s total holding of 1.2 billion barrels of government reserves
Previously, IEA member nations have released oil from emergency reserves five times: During the 1990-1991 Gulf War; after Hurricane Katrina in 2005; during the Libyan civil war in 2011; and twice after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But is this latest release sufficient to calm down the disrupted market?
The energy watchdog argued that the supply shock triggered by Iran’s strikes on cargo vessels and its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz meant energy markets are facing a worse crisis than during the Gulf War of 1991 and Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Before the US and Israel attacked Tehran – and assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – on February 28, Brent crude was trading at about $65 per barrel. Now, it is above $100, and Iranian leaders have warned countries that it will not allow “one litre of oil” to pass the Hormuz Strait if attacks continue, and that the price could go above $200 per barrel
Earlier this week, former IMF economist Olivier Blanchard was quoted by news outlet Business Insider that this could be possible if tankers carrying oil cannot be protected from Iranian attacks. “I find it hard not to have as a central scenario where oil prices will remain very high for a long time, higher than the market current prices,” Blanchard said on Thursday.
The IEA’s announcement of a plan to release 400 million barrels of oil is much higher than the 2022 release of 182 million barrels of oil by the group’s members after Russia invaded Ukraine
“Energy security is the founding mandate of the IEA, and I am pleased that IEA members are showing strong solidarity in taking decisive action together,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the Paris-based IEA
Birol applauded the member nations’ decision to contribute to the release from their strategic reserves. “This is a major action aiming to alleviate the immediate impacts of the disruption in markets,” Birol said. “But, to be clear, the most important thing for a return to stable flows of oil and gas is the resumption of transit through the Strait of Hormuz
About one-fifth of the world’s oil is transported through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s more than 20 million barrels daily on average. And coordinated IEA releases are usually spread over weeks or months, meaning only a portion of the 400 million planned barrels will be released in the short term
The US Treasury issued a 30-day waiver allowing countries to purchase sanctioned Russian oil that was already loaded and at sea, amounting to roughly 100 million barrels, in an effort to quickly add supply to global markets.
The administration is also considering temporarily waiving the Jones Act, a US maritime law requiring goods shipped between domestic ports to be carried on US-built and US-crewed vessels, aiming to ease domestic supply bottlenecks
However, a White House spokesperson said this has not been finalised yet.
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Bitcoin price is ripping. BTC USD reclaimed $71,000 Tuesday afternoon, erasing weekend losses immediately after President Trump ordered a five-day delay on strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure.
The sudden de-escalation signal triggered a violent capital rotation: oil futures collapsed nearly 10%, gold prices retreated 3.7%, and crypto assets surged in a classic risk-on relief rally.
Traders were positioned for immediate escalation following the expiration of a 48-hour ultimatum, but the pause caught bears offside.
While West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude plummeted to $85.45 on the news, Bitcoin decoupled from the broad commodity sell-off, validating its role as a liquidity gauge rather than a pure safe haven in this cycle.
Bitcoin held $68,000 through peak uncertainty and is now pushing into the supply zone above $71,500.
Bulls need one thing: a confirmed 4-hour close above $72,000. That invalidates the lower-high structure built earlier this month and opens the next leg up.
Daily RSI has reset from overbought and is trending up near 58. Room for continuation exists. The 50-day EMA is the critical floor. Lose it and this rally gets exposed as a headline-driven bull trap.
Bull case: reclaim $72,000, consolidate, retest the March high at $75,620. Bear case: rejection at $71,800 sends price back to $68,500. Lose that and $65,000 opens up.
The short squeeze did the heavy lifting on the way up. CoinGlass data shows over $271 million in short positions liquidated in the hours after the White House announcement. Traders positioned for a breakdown below $67,000 got wiped and their forced covering poured fuel on the move.
Funding rates have ticked up but open interest has not reclaimed year-to-date highs. Spot buying and short covering are driving this, not leveraged froth. That is a healthier signal for trend sustainability than a derivatives-led pump.
The correlation between Bitcoin and energy markets has inverted. While oil prices tumbled 9.8%—with Brent crude falling to $98.66—Bitcoin surged. This highlights the market’s current logic chain: lower oil prices reduce the risk of sticky inflation, which in turn lowers the probability of a hawkish Federal Reserve response.
Gold, traditionally the primary safe haven, dropped 3.7% as the immediate war premium exited the market. This divergence is critical.
While Bitcoin and gold decoupled during the Hormuz crisis, today’s action confirms that crypto is trading on liquidity dynamics rather than fear. When the threat of $150 oil vanished, the liquidity outlook improved, and Bitcoin pumped.
Investors should monitor the five-day deadline closely. If tensions flare again and oil reclaims $100, the headwinds for risk assets will return.
Traders are watching $70,000 holding as support into the daily close. Maintain this level, and the path to new highs is open. Fail here, and the market returns to choppy consolidation. The trend is up, but the geopolitical fuse is still lit.
As the gold price crash and Bitcoin rally reshape portfolio allocations, smart money is beginning to rotate profits into high-growth infrastructure plays
While Bitcoin secures its position as digital collateral, attention is turning to Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER), a protocol focused on bringing scalability to the Bitcoin network through high-performance Layer 2 solutions
Bitcoin Hyper has now raised over $32 million in its ongoing presale, signaling strong institutional appetite for Bitcoin-native DeFi
The project targets the scalability dilemma by integrating Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) architecture directly with Bitcoin’s security layer. With the token currently priced at $0.0136 and staking APY exceeding 89%, early entrants are positioning for the next phase of the Bitcoin ecosystem evolution.
Investors looking to hedge against spot volatility are diversifying into infrastructure layers that capture transaction volume regardless of short-term price action
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$153 million in daily volume. $4 billion total. $200 million in the first week alone. Polymarket’s 5-minute prediction markets have gone from experimental product to one of the highest-velocity trading venues in DeFi – and Chainlink oracles are the reason any of it works.
The volume surge, confirmed by on-chain data shared across crypto analytics channels, represents a roughly 400% increase from earlier baseline figures, with the 3x weekly growth rate still accelerating as of the latest reporting window
Standard oracle infrastructure built for hourly or daily market resolution can tolerate latency. A price feed delayed by 30 seconds is noise when a contract settles in 48 hours
In 5-minute prediction markets, that same 30-second delay is the difference between a valid settlement and a manipulated one, exactly why Polymarket’s architecture required a fundamentally different oracle setup.
Chainlink’s Data Streams integration, deployed on Polygon where Polymarket settles, delivers timestamped price reports at sub-second intervals
Combined with Chainlink Automation handling the on-chain settlement triggers, the system processes the full cycle, price confirmation, contract resolution, USDC payout, without human intervention and without the manipulation vector that centralized price feeds introduce.
The oracles provide the official price feeds that trigger contract settlements, removing the need for a centralized authority entirely.
The scale of what’s now running through this infrastructure is significant. Over 3,000 traders are actively using Chainlink Data Streams across integrated platforms, and the Dashlink dashboard tracking oracle demand shows a direct correlation between the Polymarket volume surge and a decline in LINK exchange reserves – whales are pulling supply off exchanges as network utilization hits new highs for prediction market settlements.
Native USDC collateral adoption within these markets has further accelerated institutional participation by improving capital efficiency.
The appeal is obvious: a platform already under scrutiny for insider trading patterns on longer-duration markets now offers a format where information asymmetry has a 5-minute shelf life.
The risks are real and shouldn’t be buried. Short timeframes amplify volatility, HFT-dominated order flow can crowd out retail, and oracle delays, however rare, carry outsized consequences when resolution windows are measured in minutes.
But the volume data doesn’t lie: the format is capturing demand that didn’t have an instrument before.
Liquid Chain built a Unified Liquidity Layer that aggregates capital across multiple Layer-2 networks using Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the messaging backbone
The core problem it solves is real and expensive – assets stranded on individual L2s require manual bridging, creating slippage, delay, and trust assumptions that institutional allocators won’t accept
Liquid Chain’s architecture lets users move assets seamlessly across chains without manual bridge interactions, with CCIP handling the verification and message-passing layer beneath the surface
The project has been pitching its Layer-3 DeFi buildout as a credible answer to the fragmentation problem, and the Convergence judges agreed
Other notable hackathon submissions concentrated on Real-World Asset tokenization and DeFi automation – a consistent signal that Chainlink’s developer community is orienting toward institutional-grade infrastructure rather than consumer speculation. The CCIP adoption rate implied by the hackathon submissions validates Chainlink’s cross-chain positioning at exactly the moment demand for tamper-proof oracle settlement is breaking records on Polymarket
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Washington, DC – When the White House announced that Donald Trump would be making a speech to the nation about the war on Iran, it was expected that the United States president would make a major announcement.
But in his remarks late on Wednesday, which lasted less than 20 minutes, Trump only repeated the same statements he has been circulating for weeks.
Some analysts had expected Trump to announce either an end to the war or an escalation in the conflict, such as ground operations inside Iran, but the US president only gave the public and the media more of the same rhetoric.
Here are the key takeaways from the address
In his brief remarks, the US president made four familiar points: The war is necessary; it has already been won; it must continue; and it will wrap up soon – all arguments he has been making daily.
The US president did not provide details on how the war would actually end or what kind of deal he is seeking with Iran.
We are gonna finish the job. We are getting very close,” Trump said.
Trump said on March 11 that the war would end “soon”.
“I don’t think that the speech had any point, and I failed to grasp what he was trying to do and convey. It was really a repetition of everything that he had said in the past,” Sina Azodi, assistant professor of Middle East Politics at George Washington University, told Al Jazeera.
“I did not detect anything new. Essentially, it was a summary of all of the tweets he has issued over the last 30 days, almost in chronological order,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute, told Al Jazeera.
But precisely because it does not appear to have anything new in it, it reveals that he really does not have a plan.”
While the speech did not include any major announcement, it provided Trump with a chance to make his case to a US public that is weary of foreign conflicts after the protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump’s main point was that Iran was going to acquire nuclear weapons and use them, so the US and Israel had to act.
But Trump himself had repeatedly said that the US strikes on Iran’s facilities in June 2025 had obliterated the country’s nuclear programme.
Even before last year’s war, Trump’s own intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, told lawmakers that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”.
Iran has repeatedly denied seeking a nuclear weapon, while Israel is widely believed to possess an undeclared nuclear arsenal.
Trump also suggested on Wednesday that the conflict was about settling scores with Iran after decades of rivalry between Washington and Tehran
“This fanatical regime has been chanting, ‘Death to America. Death to Israel’ for 47 years. Their proxies were behind the murder of 241 Americans in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs,” Trump said
They were involved in the attack on the USS Cole, and they carried out the countless other heinous acts, including the just horrible, bloody atrocities of October 7 in Israel.
The USS Cole bombing in 2000 was carried out by al-Qaeda operatives with no known links to Iran
There also has been no evidence linking Iran directly to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel, which was followed by a US-backed war on Gaza that leading rights experts say amounts to genocide.
Public opinion polls have suggested that a strong majority of people in the US oppose the conflict. On Wednesday, Trump tried to amplify the same talking points that have failed to rally the public around the war over the past month.
Parsi noted that the war is losing popularity in Trump’s own Republican base.
A recent YouGov poll suggested that only 28 percent of respondents, including 61 percent of Republicans, support the war.
In a previous YouGov survey released on March 2, 76 percent of Republican respondents said they support the war.
“They’re losing patience,” Parsi said of Trump’s supporters. “They’re paying the price at the gas station, at the grocery store, and it’s going to get much, much worse if this continues.”
Still, some Trump allies were happy with Wednesday’s speech.
PERFECT SPEECH,” pro-Israel commentator Mark Levin wrote on X.
Since the start of last week, Trump has been saying the US is negotiating with Iran, suggesting that a deal may be imminent.
Less than 24 hours before his address on Wednesday, Trump wrote in a social media post that “Iran’s New Regime President” asked the US for a ceasefire, suggesting that negotiations may be ongoing.
Iranians were quick to deny the claim. They have previously dismissed Trump’s assertions of negotiations while confirming that some messages have been exchanged through intermediaries. Iran also does not have a new president – Masoud Pezeshkian has been president since 2024.
Iranian officials have accused Washington of fabricating reports about diplomacy to manipulate the energy markets.
Despite Iran’s denials, Trump and his aides have repeatedly stressed that Iran is being untruthful and that there are indeed talks between the two countries.
However, on Wednesday, Trump did not mention diplomacy or negotiations.
What caught my attention was the fact that he didn’t say anything about the talks – if there are any,” Azodi said.
Throughout his remarks, Trump kept returning to the central point of his speech: that the US has won already and it only needs a little more time to “finish the job”.
We are systematically dismantling the regime’s ability to threaten America or project power outside of their borders,” the US president said.
That means eliminating Iran’s navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air force and their missile programme at levels never seen before, and annihilating their defence industrial.
Trump also asserted that Iran’s ability to retaliate against US attacks is all but vanquished
Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces – very few of them left,” Trump said.
But shortly after Trump concluded his remarks, Iran launched another missile attack against Israel.
Simultaneously, Bahrain issued a warning for residents to “head to the nearest safe place” amid an incoming Iranian attack. Earlier on Wednesday, Qatar said a cruise missile fired from Iran had hit a QatarEnergy liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship off the country’s coast. Qatar also said that its military had intercepted two other Iranian cruise missiles.
Still, Trump’s victory lap on Wednesday included claims that the US has changed the ruling system in Iran.
Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders’ death. They’re all dead,” the US president said.
While US-Israeli attacks did kill Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several top political and military officials, there have been no major defections within the Iranian ruling system.
Khamenei was replaced by his son Mojtaba, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is spearheading the war effort, has promised to continue the fight and “punish” the US and Israel.
Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), ridiculed Trump’s claim of regime change in Iran.
Trump hasn’t changed the regime; if anything, he’s honed it to its hardest core. It’s interesting he thinks this clearly false claim is so important to spin. It’s Trump’s way of admitting failure,” Abdi told Al Jazeera.
Trump acknowledged that Americans are paying more for petrol, but he promised that the economic pain would only be temporary.
Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home,” he said.
This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers in neighbouring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons
The average gas prices surpassed $4 per gallon (3.8 litres) this week – the highest since 2022.
Iran has responded to the US and Israeli attacks by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a major waterway for the international energy trade.
While the US – a major energy producer – is largely self-sufficient when it comes to oil, supply issues affect prices across the world and send prices soaring globally.
However, Trump argued on Wednesday that countries dependent on Gulf oil should take the lead on resolving the Hormuz crisis, although the US launched the war unilaterally with Israel
Build up some delayed courage,” he said in a message to countries that import Gulf oil.
They] should have done it before, should have done it with us, as we asked. Go to the strait and just take it, protect it
Trump said the US will continue to bomb Iran into “the Stone Ages”, reiterating his threat to target the country’s electric grid
“If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said
Bombing civilian sites is prohibited under international law
Iran has warned that if its power plants are struck, it would retaliate against energy and electric infrastructure across the region
“It means that the rules-based international system is dead and there is no longer a facade,” Azodi said of Trump’s threat
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