{"id":427735,"date":"2026-03-02T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/trump-floats-lifting-sanctions-against-a-new-iranian-regime\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:25:11","slug":"trump-floats-lifting-sanctions-against-a-new-iranian-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-floats-lifting-sanctions-against-a-new-iranian-regime-427735\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats lifting sanctions against a new Iranian regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I just finished writing up<a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/bolton-warns-trump-may-not-have-thought-past-the-trigger-on-iran-20260302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\"> an interview<\/a> with former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton and he talked about how Trump &#8220;doesn&#8217;t do strategic thinking&#8221; and his latest comments to the New York Times underscore that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president offered a variety of often inconsistent visions of how a<br \/>\nnew government could take shape after the targeted killing of Ayatollah<br \/>\nAli Khamenei,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p>In one, he said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could turn over their weapons to the people. I another, he suggested a leadership change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report challenges that:<\/p>\n<p>he has been told by his advisers that the vast differences in cultures<br \/>\nand history made it virtually impossible to apply the strategy used in<br \/>\nVenezuela .<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he had three choices for who to lead Iran but didn&#8217;t reveal them.<\/p>\n<p>Critically for the oil market is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Trump said that he was open to lifting sanctions on Iran if the new leadership shows itself to be a pragmatic partner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WTI has come under some pressure after the huge opening pop. It was last up 5.8%.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished writing up an interview with former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton and he talked about how Trump &#8220;doesn&#8217;t do strategic thinking&#8221; and his latest comments to the New&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}