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The gap between the price and the argument.

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Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027?

Trump called it over. Markets haven't.

Trump has publicly declared the Iran conflict finished and claimed victory — making a formal invasion before 2027 a political near-impossibility, regardless of what's still moving in the Persian Gulf.

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