Abir Abu Omar

Bloomberg News Now · Trump's Economic Warfare, Treasury Rally Starts to Fade, More · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

We don't know exactly what President Trump says when he says economic D-Day or when he says that Iran is going to face the most pain when it comes to these economic measures that are gonna be taken against it.

Because he didn't clarify much beyond that truth social post that he had about that promise, essentially.

What we know for the time being is that it could be some kind of further sanctions.

And again, Iranian oil is sanctioned.

China, the biggest buyer of that oil, of course.

If it is targeted, that could bring up the conversation about retaliatory tariffs or even bigger kind of tensions between China and the United States.

Bloomberg News Now · Treasury Boosts Bond Buybacks, Trump Delays Canada Tariffs, More · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

Iran also saying, according to those couple of sources that the FT is citing, that subsea fiber optics in the Strait of Hormuz may also be considered as potential targets.

Bloomberg News Now · Stocks Rise as Treasury Steps In, Canada Gets Tariff Delay, More · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

Financial Times citing two sources close to the regime in Iran, saying that Iran may be considering attacking Europe if President Trump were to escalate uh the war militarily in the region.

Now, Cyprus came up as a potential target.

Cyprus was attacked, or a British base there was attacked by an Iranian drone throughout this war or through the course of this war.

That came up as a potential target yet.

Again.

Bloomberg News Now · Trump: No Talks with Iran, DOJ to Monitor Primaries, More · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

In the early hours of our morning here in Dubai there were news about a vessel in the Strait of Hamous being attacked, one casualty there, and then our energy teams have also reported uh a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that was making some erratic turns before halting its uh its movement near the Kisham Island in Iran.

Bloomberg News Now · Trump Takes Hard Line on Iran, Landmark Social Media Trial Begins, More · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Now the wider negotiations, of course, you mentioned that MOU and that expiry date that was rendered meaningless by Iran yesterday, saying that because of the multiple violations that have been created by the United States throughout the past sixty days, that MOU expiry date pretty much means nothing.

Bloomberg News Now · Hormuz Standoff Drags On, Bond Slump Deepens, More · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

From the Iranian side we know that there's a lot of complexities when it comes to finding that mechanism and a way around just finding those paths in the Strait of Hermuz to to reopen and get oil moving once again through the waterway.

That is when it comes to that agreement that is happening between Oman and Iran.

Bloomberg News Now · Trump Takes Hard Line on Iran, Global Bond Slump, More · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

From the Iranian side we know that there's a lot of complexities when it comes to finding that mechanism and a way around just finding those paths in the Strait of Hermuz to to reopen and get oil moving once again through the waterway.

That is when it comes to that agreement that is happening between Oman and Iran.

Bloomberg News Now · Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman, US-Iran Peace Prospects Dim, More · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

It's unclear just what exactly that entails or if that will entail further sanctions against Iran.

It's already one of the most, if not the most, sanctioned country by the United States.

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