What if Iran domestic unrest raises oil-supply and regional risk?
A wave of domestic unrest in Iran raises the risk of export disruption and regional escalation; oil catches a supply-risk premium and global risk appetite softens on the geopolitical overhang.
The butterfly cascade
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Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), from the past toward the 6–18 months horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. A wave of domestic unrest in Iran raises the risk of export disruption and regional escalation; oil catches a supply-risk premium and global risk appetite softens on the geopolitical overhang. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Gold ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.