{"id":386414,"date":"2026-04-07T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:55:10","slug":"irans-parliament-leader-talks-like-a-day-trading-strategist-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386414\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s parliament leader talks like a day-trading strategist \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a>\u2019s political class is not known for speaking like a cohort of day traders, but that is precisely the tone struck in recent weeks by Iranian parliament leader Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His posts on X read less like the rhetoric one associates with a theocratic state than a particularly online macro newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cDo the opposite,\u201d he advised followers recently, treating statements by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> as a kind of reverse market indicator. \u201cIf they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long. See something tomorrow? You know the drill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Days earlier, Ghalibaf wrote: \u201cThey\u2019ve spammed so much fake news trying to push energy prices down that the market\u2019s just numb now. Keep going, nobody\u2019s buying it any more. The real prices will show up anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">With the brisk and declarative tone of a trader on caffeine, one wonders if Wall Street might be his next posting. As Bloomberg\u2019s Javier Blas quipped, you half expect a Substack blog or a podcast to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s political class is not known for speaking like a cohort of day traders, but that is precisely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,969,61,11829,60,150432],"class_list":{"0":"post-386414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-israel-iran-conflict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}