06/23/25 Afternoon CommStock Report – Even Correct Decisions Can Lead to more Uncertainty

I had not planned on writing another CommStock Report on the Middle East quite so soon but I am not in charge of the world. While 14 bunker-buster deep-strike bombs delivered on Iranian nuclear sites had to have rearranged the landscape, we will soon see if they change the hard mindset of Iranian leaders. I will deep dive into the historical context. I assumed that president Trump was going to have to follow through on his threats to jointly participate militarily with Israel in the war against Iran or no one would take him seriously in the future. He had given Iran 60 days to concede their nuclear program in negotiations and when that deadline expired Israel took the lead with the initial attack. There is no way that Iran could be allowed to develop nuclear capability as, being religious zealots, they may think Allah wants them to use it. We don’t need any more Kim Jung Un’s to deal with either. Iran’s intention to become a nuclear power meant that if they were unwilling to cooperate, we had to make the decision for them to insure it was forcefully done. In the larger scheme of things, President Trump had…