{"id":428050,"date":"2026-03-06T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-admiral-irans-ballistic-missile-attacks-have-decreased-by-90\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:40:33","slug":"us-admiral-irans-ballistic-missile-attacks-have-decreased-by-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-admiral-irans-ballistic-missile-attacks-have-decreased-by-90-428050\/","title":{"rendered":"US admiral:  Iran&#8217;s ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CENTCOM  Commander Admiral Brad Cooper is highlighting something that markets should keep in mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;If I just look back over the last 24 hours of the operation compared to the where we were to start, ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90%&#8230; Drone attacks have decreased by 83%&#8230; we\u2019re now up over 30 ships [destroyed].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also highlighted one of the goals of the operation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Trump] gave us another task \u2014 to raze or level Iran\u2019s ballistic missile industrial base. We\u2019re not just hitting what they have, were destroying their ability to rebuild&#8230;we will systemically dismantle Iran\u2019s missile production capability for the future, and that\u2019s absolutely in progress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How hard are they hitting?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;In just the last 72 hours, America&#8217;s bomber force has struck nearly 200 targets deep inside of Iran&#8230; In just the last hour, U.S. B-2 bombers dropped dozen of 2,000lb Penetrator bombs targeting deeply buried ballistic missile launchers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess (and it&#8217;s truly a guess) is that Trump really has a 4-5 week target in mind where they will relentlessly bomb Iran and then he will declare that Iran&#8217;s ability to wage war is basically toast and he will declare victory.<\/p>\n<p>At some point Iran will regroup but perhaps not during Trump&#8217;s term. And if so, they will send in the drones or bombs here and there. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is some sense of panic about rising oil prices and there is a report that the Treasury could even short oil futures to bring down energy prices. Expect some announcements on oil price action today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Trump absolutely hates high oil prices and gasoline prices are how higher than at any point in his first term or this one.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper is highlighting something that markets should keep in mind: &#8220;If I just look back over the last 24 hours of the operation compared to the where we&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-428050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428050","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=428050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}