7.21 midday major breaking geopolitical news: the U.S.-Iran conflict has once again entered a phase of substantive escalation!

According to CCTV News, on the morning of the 21st local time, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps publicly announced that it has launched a new round of targeted attacks, with targets including U.S. military bases in Jordan and key infrastructure in Bahrain belonging to the American company Amazon.

So far, neither the governments of Jordan and Bahrain nor relevant U.S. departments have issued any response regarding this attack.

Combined with the news released earlier this morning, U.S. officials said that Trump will decide within just a few days whether to expand military strikes against Iran. If a full-scale war breaks out, the scale and intensity of the strikes would far exceed the previous airstrikes, and could even affect Iran’s nuclear facilities and the core areas of Tehran. Now that Iran has taken the initiative to launch an attack on U.S. overseas outposts first, the pace of confrontation between the two sides has directly accelerated. The risk level in the Middle East has once again been pushed higher, market risk-avoidance sentiment has rapidly warmed up, and volatility in crude oil and various risk assets will be significantly amplified. Next, closely watch for the U.S. side’s subsequent retaliation steps, and make sure to strictly control position sizing in operations to avoid being hit by sudden negative news. #事件合约上线