Mario Nawfal – X, Released on 7/17/26

Iran is now under the same kind of asset freeze and oil cutoff that pushed Japan toward Pearl Harbor in 1941… Gerald Celente has forecast trends for 46 years, called the dot com crash in print in 1999, and opened his first appearance on the show by saying he has never been more worried about where the world is heading. His rule from four decades of watching: “When all else fails, they take you to war.” His warning runs through 1941. That July, Washington froze Japan’s assets, then joined Britain and the Dutch in cutting three quarters of its trade and nearly 90% of its oil. Pearl Harbor came months later. Iran today sits under frozen assets, a severed central bank, and a naval blockade, and in his read, nations squeezed that hard eventually hit back. He also explained why Tehran does not fold: 1953, when the US and Britain toppled Iran’s elected prime minister over oil, a coup most Americans never learned happened. The mistrust never healed, and in his count neither Rome, nor Vietnam, nor Iraq, nor Afghanistan rewarded the confident invader. His bookend is economic. Markets priced like 1999, Korea’s main index already down 30%, and his forecast of a crash worse than the 1930s. Which is exactly where his opening rule points next.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran is now under the same kind of asset freeze and oil cutoff that pushed Japan toward Pearl Harbor in 1941…

Gerald Celente has forecast trends for 46 years, called the dot com crash in print in 1999, and opened his first appearance on the show by saying he has never been… pic.twitter.com/7T6t23Do0R

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 17, 2026

Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom, Celente, whose motto is “think for yourself,” observes and analyzes the current events forming future trends for what they are – not for the way he wants them to be. Gerald Celente has earned his reputation as “The most trusted name in trends” by accurately forecasting hundreds of social, business, consumer, environmental, economic, political, entertainment, and technology trends.

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