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US "Temporarily Allows" Iranian Oil for 30 Days, Trump Mentions Orderly End to War: Stabilizing Oil Prices or US Debt?

According to US Treasury Department messages, the US has approved a limited 30-day authorization allowing Iranian crude oil and petroleum products already in transit to complete delivery and sales, expected to release approximately 140 million barrels of supply to global markets. From a macro perspective, this looks more like an emergency hedging operation targeting oil prices and inflation.

I. Risk Control
This authorization has clear limitation conditions:
• Limited to already-shipped oil
• Time window of only 30 days
• Does not involve new exports or long-term policy adjustments

This means the US has not changed its sanctions framework against Iran, but is temporarily releasing inventory to stabilize market expectations amid heating Middle East tensions.

II. Core Logic: Oil Price → Inflation → Interest Rate → US Debt
The true main line of current global macro is not the Middle East itself, but the following chain:
Oil price increase → Inflation rebound → Federal Reserve unable to cut rates → US debt interest rates remain elevated → Fiscal pressure intensifies

In other words:
👉 What the US really needs to stabilize is not the Middle East, but the inflation and interest rate path

If oil prices rapidly break through $100 due to geopolitical conflict, it will directly disrupt the Federal Reserve's rate-cutting timeline, further worsening the already elevated US debt interest burden.

III. Why Act Now?
Recent Middle East situation carries escalation risks:
• Red Sea shipping disrupted
• Strait of Hormuz potential threats
• Iran-Israel conflict spillover risks

Against this backdrop, the US chose to proactively release supply, suppress oil price expectations, rather than passively respond afterward

This is a typical "expectations management."

IV. Market Impact
Short-term:
Oil price upside pressured (bearish crude)
Inflation expectations ease (bullish risk assets)
Crypto market sentiment slightly positive

Medium-term key variables:
• If conflict remains controllable → Risk assets continue rally
• If energy facilities attacked → Oil prices spike → Macro liquidity tightens
• If Strait of Hormuz blocked → Global liquidity shock (systemic risk)

V. Hash Chainews Perspective
This is a typical US macroeconomic control action.

In the current cycle:
👉 Oil price is the Federal Reserve's "shadow interest rate"
👉 And interest rates are the lifeline of the US debt system

The US allowing Iranian oil short-term market entry is essentially buying itself time

This forced policy is to avoid the financial system coming under premature pressure.

What the US is releasing is not Iranian oil, but an inflation hedging "liquidity valve."