{"id":428897,"date":"2026-03-25T22:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/irans-nuclear-power-plant-struck-again-report-update-it-was-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:40:18","slug":"irans-nuclear-power-plant-struck-again-report-update-it-was-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/irans-nuclear-power-plant-struck-again-report-update-it-was-yesterday-428897\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s nuclear power plant struck again &#8211; report (Update: It was yesterday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Press TV reports that Iran&#8217;s Bushehr nuclear power plant has been struck again, but it&#8217;s not clear if that damage is to the plant or the adjacent site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a projectile struck the facility around 21:08 on Tuesday, marking an alarming escalation in the US-Israeli terrorism against Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As this news was hitting, US stocks were already under pressure. I don&#8217;t know if that was because Trump told his friends that the ceasefire was off or whether the market finally got the message the Iran wasn&#8217;t interested in ending the war yet.<\/p>\n<p>But note the time in this report, it cites late Tuesday so it&#8217;s not something that just happened as it&#8217;s now Wednesday evening in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I don&#8217;t like the signs on any of this.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 is still up 18 points but was up +70 in the pre-market.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran&#8217;s largest power plant, which is the Damavand Power Plant southeast of Tehran. Bushehr is about one third of its size at 1 GW.<\/p>\n<p>Update: With a closer inspection of the timing of that report, we&#8217;ve seen a bounce in stocks. The market is understandably anxious about Trump striking power plants if there&#8217;s no ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press TV reports that Iran&#8217;s Bushehr nuclear power plant has been struck again, but it&#8217;s not clear if that damage is to the plant or the adjacent site. According to the Atomic&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-428897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428897","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=428897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}