{"id":1077794,"date":"2026-07-09T05:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1077794\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:49:42","slug":"key-geopolitical-risk-to-the-markets-isnt-iran-its-russia-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1077794\/","title":{"rendered":"Key geopolitical risk to the markets isn&#8217;t Iran, it&#8217;s Russia: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>Independent geopolitical analyst Jacob Shapiro likens MOUs to &#8220;toilet paper&#8221; unlike treaties which actually have signatory international law behind them, and that the markets are telling the U.S. and Iran that they have more room for political theatre and grandstanding. However, he is concerned about the escalating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Independent geopolitical analyst Jacob Shapiro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[3085,295222,228812,32,774,5488,285,332,74677,657,333,2601],"class_list":["post-1077794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-business-news","tag-cease-fires","tag-crude-oil-markets","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-neutral","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116888454187243676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}