{"id":441475,"date":"2026-11-04T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/two-reasons-why-the-us-could-attack-iran-as-soon-as-tomorrow-441475\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:00:07","slug":"two-reasons-why-the-us-could-attack-iran-as-soon-as-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/two-reasons-why-the-us-could-attack-iran-as-soon-as-tomorrow-441475\/","title":{"rendered":"Two reasons why the US could attack Iran as soon as tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Oil has been\u00a0falling this week but there&#8217;s a fair argument that Trump could be attempting to send false signals in order to lower\u00a0oil prices ahead of the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, the US military has been angling to be in a position to attack immediately after the midterms.\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0cites US officials who say the US military could resume major combat operations against Iran as early as\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons they US could\u00a0launch\u00a0the type of short and intense campaign Trump has\u00a0teased. The first is that there are currently three US aircraft\u00a0carriers in the region but one must return home in early November.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>USS George H.W. Bush\u2014 Already operating in the region.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>USS George Washington \u2014 Redeployed from the Pacific to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>USS Theodore Roosevelt \u2014 Deployed from San Diego in late September to reinforce U.S. forces.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0USS George Washington is likely the one that needs to leave, returning ot its normal operating area near Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, early November is also a period of moonless nights and that&#8217;s the darkness the US military generally prefers for its attacks, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The NYT writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\"><p>U.S. Central Command has a plan to strike Iran beginning as early as Wednesday, after the U.S. midterm elections and when three aircraft carriers are in the region, according to U.S. officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\"><p>The ideal conditions for the type of campaign the military has laid out will last only a short time. After early November, one of the aircraft carriers will need to return to its home port. Early November is also a period of moonless nights, the kind of deep darkness the U.S. military likes to use for its attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In any case, Wednesday should be a volatile day.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil has been\u00a0falling this week but there&#8217;s a fair argument that Trump could be attempting to send false signals in order to lower\u00a0oil prices ahead of the vote.\u00a0 Behind the scenes, the&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-441475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441475","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=441475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}