Energy & Commodities risk-on · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Iran sanctions relief adds 1.3 mb/d into an oversupplied market?

A nuclear understanding lifts restrictions and Iran ramps exports by over 1 mb/d into an already-soft market; Brent slides toward the low-$60s and the heavy-sour discount narrows as barrels return.

35%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — the market's odds
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Anchored to measured history 35% · 90% range 4–67% · 17 dated precedents behind it — a wider range means thinner evidence

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The butterfly cascade

How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.

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…

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. A nuclear understanding lifts restrictions and Iran ramps exports by over 1 mb/d into an already-soft market; Brent slides toward the low-$60s and the heavy-sour discount narrows as barrels return. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Geopolitical risk ▼ · Inflation expectations ▼ · Oil demand ▼ · Risk appetite ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Market odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-08-13.