All right, Alexander. Let's talk about what is going on in the Middle East.

Axios is saying that there is going to be a big Iran retaliation coming either on Monday or Tuesday, Wednesday.

Axios is convinced that it's going to happen early in the week. I believe

they said Monday citing their sources. The Wall Street Journal is saying that Iran is going to

retaliate, like a real retaliation, not something along the lines of what we saw in April when

the Iranian consulate was hit in Syria. We have a lot of

U.S. military officials in the Middle East as well, planning for this big Iranian strike.

What's your sense of things? It does look like. Markets are crashing everywhere, travel

warnings. How are you looking at this right now? It does seem like markets are crashing everywhere, travel warnings.

How are you looking at this right now?

It does seem like we are going to get something big coming in the next couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks.

Who knows?

It's hard to time these things.

Well, we can't time them because, of course, we don't know what the plans that have been drawn up by the various parties are, but all the indications, all the overwhelming

indications, both from, you know, the US, but also from Iran itself, is that a major

Iranian response is on its way.

Now, I'm going to just say one of few things about the timings.

The Iranians are calling a meeting of the Organization of Islamic States,

and I'm guessing that they will probably want to calibrate their response, to align that response with that meeting.

So they will want countries, as many Islamic countries as possible to attend it.

They will want a big show of support.

Maybe they will want that to happen before the actual military response takes place.

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