{"id":429926,"date":"2026-04-29T01:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-intel-agencies-are-studying-how-iran-would-react-to-the-us-declaring-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:40:12","slug":"us-intel-agencies-are-studying-how-iran-would-react-to-the-us-declaring-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-intel-agencies-are-studying-how-iran-would-react-to-the-us-declaring-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"US intel agencies are studying how Iran would react to the US declaring victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Reuters, citing unnamed sources, says the US intel community is examining how Iran would respond to the US declaring victory in the war. <\/p>\n<p>That Trump is even considering this is another sign that he&#8217;s done with the war. The &#8216;examination&#8217; part is whether they would open Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The result may be that we essentially go back to pre-war. Hormuz is open, Iran remains sanctioned and it repairs hundreds of billions in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Just now, Trump is posing on Truth in response to yesterday&#8217;s criticism from Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it\u2019s OK for Iran to<br \/>\nhave a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about! If Iran<br \/>\nhad a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage. I am doing<br \/>\nsomething with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents,<br \/>\nshould have done long ago. No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both<br \/>\nEconomically, and otherwise! President DONALD J. TRUMP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again he&#8217;s focused on nuclear. Obviously Trump would like a nuclear deal but that&#8217;s looking out of reach. If he declares victory, he could simply say that the US is satellite monitoring Fordow and that any activity will result in bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Iran doesn&#8217;t open Hormuz right away, Trump could leave that job to the rest of the world by declaring victory.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Merz said yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather,<br \/>\nvery skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to<br \/>\nIslamabad and then leave again without any result,\u201d Chancellor Friedrich<br \/>\n Merz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn<br \/>\n entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially<br \/>\n by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends<br \/>\nas quickly as possible,\u201d Merz said.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters, citing unnamed sources, says the US intel community is examining how Iran would respond to the US declaring victory in the war. That Trump is even considering this is another sign that he&#8217;s done with the war. The &#8216;examination&#8217; part is whether they would open Hormuz. The result may be that we essentially go [&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-429926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429926","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=429926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}