{"id":438316,"date":"2026-09-18T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-says-he-faces-a-big-decision-on-whether-to-launch-new-attacks-on-iran-438316\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:15:23","slug":"trump-says-he-faces-a-big-decision-on-whether-to-launch-new-attacks-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-says-he-faces-a-big-decision-on-whether-to-launch-new-attacks-on-iran-438316\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he faces a \u201cbig decision\u201d on whether to launch new attacks on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">US President Trump told Axios he is at a \u201ccritical juncture\u201d regarding the war in Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The officials say Trump needs to decide soon on the way forward, partly because the US military can&#8217;t stay in its current holding pattern much longer. \u201cAt some point you have to decide what is the end game.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Trump and Hegseth have ordered the military to maintain its level of forces in the Middle East until the end of the year, to remain ready for a potential return to full-scale combat.<\/li>\n<li>Trump declined to say whether he&#8217;ll decide on the path forward before or after the midterms.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them [the Iranian regime] or do I not? It&#8217;s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Analysis: The comments suggest Trump is approaching a decision point, but he is keeping both military escalation and a different path to ending the conflict on the table. The order to maintain current US force levels in the Middle East through year-end is important because it keeps the military positioned to respond quickly if the decision is made to resume full-scale combat.<\/p>\n<p>For the markets, the uncertainty is likely to keep geopolitical risk elevated\u2014especially for oil\u2014until there is more clarity on the US path forward. The next question is not only what Trump decides, but when he decides, with the timing before or after the midterms still unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil prices are\u00a0trading at $102.17. That&#8217;s down about $0.16 on the day, well off the low price of $99.10. It&#8217;s 100 hour moving average is just above at $102.59. A move above would give the buyers more confidence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Trump told Axios he is at a \u201ccritical juncture\u201d regarding the war in Iran: The officials say Trump needs to decide soon on the way forward, partly because the US&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-438316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438316","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=438316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}