Even after President Donald Trump declared that “the killing in Iran has stopped” and Iran claims to have full control, European and Middle East sources believe a U.S. strike on the nation is imminent. NeoCons from the Council on Foreign Relations and war hawks like John Bolton are already salivating over the prospects.
US forces appear poised to strike Iran as early as tomorrow, according to two European diplomats speaking to Reuters. An Israeli source echoed this, noting President Trump has committed to intervention, though exact targets and scale remain under wraps. This escalation follows weeks of deadly protests in Iran, where the regime’s crackdown has claimed somewhere between 2,000 and 20,000 lives by official counts, with human rights groups estimating even higher tolls amid an ongoing internet blackout.
The unrest erupted on December 28, 2025, in Tehran’s bazaars over skyrocketing inflation and the rial’s collapse, losing nearly half its value since Iran’s brief war with Israel last June. What began as economic fury quickly turned into demands for regime change, with crowds chanting against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and even praising the exiled son of the former shah, Reza Pahlavi. Security forces responded with live fire, targeting heads and eyes in some cases, as documented by Amnesty International and verified videos from The New York Times.
Iran’s leaders have scrambled to contain the fallout, suspending talks with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, a Trump confidant from New York’s real estate world who has brokered Middle East deals since 2025. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reached out to Witkoff over the weekend about the protests, but Trump canceled all meetings, posting on Truth Social that further diplomacy was off the table. A senior Iranian official confirmed to Reuters the channel is now closed, blaming US threats for derailing nuclear discussions.
In response, Tehran warned Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey, and others hosting US troops that their bases would become targets if America attacks. This came as the US began pulling non-essential personnel from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, home to 10,000 American troops, and Britain followed suit from its own facilities there. NBC News reported hundreds of US forces evacuating amid Trump’s deliberations on options tailored to punish the regime’s brutality.
Trump has made his stance clear: any violent retaliation against protesters would trigger a US response “at levels never seen before.” Yet in a White House briefing today, he noted receiving assurances that killings and executions have halted, adding, “We’ll watch and see what the process is.” Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, in a Euronews interview, suggested targeted strikes could tip the balance inside Iran, potentially sparking defections among the elite.
Nations are urging their citizens to flee Iran immediately. Poland’s foreign ministry posted on X: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges the immediate departure from Iran and advises against all travel to this country.”
Italy cited security risks for its 600 nationals, mostly in Tehran, while the US advised overland exits to Turkey or Armenia if safe. The UK closed its Tehran embassy today, shifting operations remotely, signaling heightened alert.
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Analysts warn a US move could unify Iran’s hardliners, per The Media Line, or backfire by harming civilians more than the regime, as Iranian immigrants told WBEZ Chicago. Still, with Iran’s proxy funding for groups like Hezbollah draining resources while citizens suffer, protesters’ chants of “No to Gaza; no to Lebanon; my life only for Iran” reflect deep resentment.
Trump’s approach contrasts past hesitations, prioritizing American strength and support for those fighting tyranny. As one Western military official told Reuters, “All the signals are that a US attack is imminent, but unpredictability is part of the strategy.” If action unfolds, it may finally break the mullahs’ grip, echoing biblical prophecies of Persia’s fall in times of upheaval, and paving the way for a freer Iran.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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