Iran War Turns Apocalyptic! Will there be Bank Runs Soon due to Liquidity Crisis?

by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News

The Iran War turned apocalyptic this weekend, as both sides allegedly started attacking and destroying desalination plants that turn sea water into drinking water, which is crucial to life in the barren, desert Gulf States (I lived there for 4 years in the 1990s).

This is far more crucial for the rich Arab states than it is for Iran, as Iran only uses a tiny fraction of their drinking water from desalination. Here is a graphic from Al Jazeera showing how dependent the Arab Gulf states are on water from desalination:

Iran claims the U.S. started this by bombing one of their desalination plants, which then prompted an attack on a desalination plant in Bahrain.

These desalination plants are not only crucial to providing safe drinking water, but they are also needed to produce large quantities of fresh water to run new AI data centers in these desert kingdoms.

It Begins: Iranian Drone Strikes Bahrain Desalination Plant As Worst-Case Scenario Unfolds

From data centers in the Gulf area to water desalination plants, the worst-case scenario is now unfolding in the Middle East conflict, with no boundaries regarding civilian infrastructure.

We warned earlier last week, after correctly predicting that data centers would be targeted, that water desalination plants would be next.

Al Jazeera reports that after Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi claimed the US targeted a water desalination plant in Iran, an IRGC kamikaze drone then targeted a desalination plant in Bahrain.

Al Jazeera also outlined the importance of water desalination plants to the Gulf region:

• GCC states hold about 60% of global desalination capacity and produce around 40% of the world’s desalinated water through more than 400 plants.
• Most GCC countries rely heavily on desalination: 90% of Kuwait’s drinking water, 86% in Oman, 70% in Saudi Arabia, and 42% in the UAE.
• Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest producer, with capacity projected to reach 8.5 million cubic meters per day by 2025 after $80 billion in investments.

Full article ^[1].

Meanwhile, in a huge financial story that came out Friday but was barely mentioned in the corporate media while the U.S. stock market was rapidly declining, BlackRock ^[2], the largest hedge fund management company in the world, blocked nearly half of the investors who requested withdrawals from its $26 billion private credit fund from withdrawing their funds, a sign of a major liquidity crisis in the U.S. markets.

BlackRock Just Told Investors They Can’t Have Their Money Back and the Entire Private Credit Industry Is Shaking

Something significant happened in global financial markets this week that received far less attention than it deserved. BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager, overseeing more than $10 trillion in assets — blocked nearly half of the investors who requested withdrawals from its $26 billion private credit fund from getting their money back.

Not because the fund had collapsed. Not because of fraud or regulatory intervention. Simply because too many people wanted out at the same time, and the fund didn’t have the liquidity to pay them all.

This is not a minor operational footnote. It is a structural warning sign about one of the fastest-growing and least-understood corners of global finance — and the reverberations are already being felt across the entire asset management industry.

What makes this moment particularly significant is that BlackRock’s situation is not an isolated case. Across the private credit sector, the same pressure is building simultaneously.

Blackstone’s equivalent fund saw a record 7.9% in redemption requests — a figure that forced the firm to raise its withdrawal cap and inject $400 million of its own capital simply to cover investor demand. When one of the world’s most sophisticated alternative asset managers has to put its own money in to cover outflows, something has changed materially in investor sentiment.

Blue Owl went further still.

Rather than partially honouring redemptions or raising caps, the firm stopped honouring them altogether and replaced withdrawal requests with IOUs — a formal acknowledgment that it cannot currently meet its liquidity obligations to investors.

The market responded accordingly.

BlackRock’s stock dropped 5%. KKR, Carlyle, Apollo, Ares, Blue Owl, and TPG all fell between 5% and 6% on the same day. The entire private credit sector sold off in a single session — a collective repricing of risk that the market had been slow to price in.

Full article ^[3].

Here are some more news items I published on our Telegram channel ^[4] recently.

Iran War Imperils $300 Billion in Gulf AI Spending

I wonder if Trump and his Zionist Administration ever considered the impact on AI and Big Tech when they started this war with Iran? They are heavily invested in the Middle East to build data centers close to cheap energy, and Iran apparently understands this.

From The Information ^[5]:

UAE and Saudi Arabia have been big investors in AI and major destinations for data centers.

The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments, crimping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies.

Countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers. Local firms are developing the projects, along with U.S. companies such as xAI, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and Google, which are drawn to the region for its cheap energy.

Drone strikes on three Amazon data centers in the region suddenly made those projects appear riskier. A prolonged war could also reduce overseas investment into the region from firms such as Brookfield, which is working with multiple Gulf nations on their AI investments.

OpenAI and xAI have raised money from Gulf nations and made plans to build data centers in the region, leaving them more exposed to the risks of the conflict than rival Anthropic, which has raised money in the Gulf but has been reluctant to build large-scale computing facilities there.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman recently said the country planned to spend $50 billion on semiconductors in the short term, and the UAE could spend upward of $30 billion purchasing its allotment of Nvidia chips through next year, according to current market prices.

Those chips won’t be usable if regional leaders can’t find a way to continue funding and protecting their data centers.

Spike in oil prices triggers talk of an economic doomsday scenario

This is from the mainstream financial news media representing Wall Street, MarketWatch ^[6].

President Trump calling for an ‘unconditional surrender’ by Iran didn’t help oil markets Friday

U.S. and global benchmark prices on Friday tallied their largest weekly gains on record. Another week like that would lift prices very close to their all-time highs — and invite talk of an economic doomsday.

The price of oil can have far-reaching effects on the global economy — from gasoline, jet fuel, utility and manufacturing costs, to inflation, consumer spending and employment.

Higher prices can increase inflation, negatively impact consumers’ purchasing power and slow economic growth, said Katy Kaminski, chief research strategist and portfolio manager at investment adviser AlphaSimplex. Higher inflation can, in turn, complicate monetary policy, she noted, which can then directly influence things like economic growth and employment.

That’s what makes the biggest-ever weekly percentage gains for both U.S. benchmark WTI and global benchmark Brent crude prices such a big concern.

For the week ended March 6, April WTI posted a gain of nearly 36% and May Brent rose 27%. And as prices rally fast and strong, they inch closer to the record-high levels of more than $145 a barrel last seen in 2008.

The impact of rising prices on the U.S. economy will depend on the extent of transportation disruptions in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, according to Goldman Sachs Research economists Jessica Rindels and Pierfrancesco Mei.

Iran rejects U.S. demand for ‘unconditional surrender’

Iran will continue defending itself and has no intention of surrendering, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that Tehran accept nothing short of “unconditional surrender.”

(If this YouTube video does not load, there is a backup copy here ^[7].)

Trump may draft Americans to fight Iran

This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI) ^[8]

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