America’s visible and hidden role in the assassination of martyrs Ismail Haniyeh and Fouad Shekar
Mehr News Agency, Bin Group International: The martyrdom of the dear guest of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Martyr Ismail Haniyeh and the military commander of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Martyr Fouad Shekar, were very important events that can be examined from various dimensions. The simultaneous assassination of two great commanders of the resistance front indicates a coordinated planning in the Israeli-American criminal gang.
The assassination of Martyr Fouad Shekar took place in the evening of Tuesday 9th of August and the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh took place in the first hours of the morning on Wednesday 10th of August 1403 corresponding to July 31, 2024. Security and political experts believe that Netanyahu informed America of his decision regarding the recent assassinations during his recent visit to America, which took place between August 1st and 7th, corresponding to July 22nd and 28th, and that these assassinations were carried out with the coordination of the United States. But is it possible to obtain evidence in this regard through statistics and economic information?
The stock value of major American weapons companies experienced a rapid and emotional increase during the week leading to the assassination of martyrs Haniyeh and Fouad Shekar. Does the sudden increase in the value of these companies’ shares have anything to do with the aforementioned assassinations? In this report, we are trying to examine this issue carefully.
The rapid increase in the value of shares of three American weapons companies before the recent assassinations (numbers is in dollars)
The vast majority of political, military, and security events will ultimately affect the price of goods and services. The relationship between economy and politics is a direct two-way equation that by examining the changes of each side of the equation, the changes of the other side can be analyzed. A clear example of these effects is the fall of the world stock market index after the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh and the decision of the Islamic Republic of Iran to take harsh revenge for this crime.
The graph below shows the change of two important economic indicators after the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh. These changes have been reviewed for 4 working days from the beginning of July 31 to the end of August 5. In all the images in this report, each of the vertical rectangles, which are called candles, represent the price changes in one working day. Red candles are bearish and gray candles are bullish.
Changes in Nasdaq 100 index, United States, in dollars
Changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, United States, in dollars
By examining the above charts, it will be well understood that politics and economy are directly related to each other. By analyzing economic indicators, one can get to know the political, security, and military decisions behind the curtain of the economy to some extent and analyze and examine them. Now we want to check the chart of the changes in the stock value of the world’s military companies in the week before the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh and see if there are any significant changes in these charts.
We choose the list of the world’s largest weapons manufacturing companies based on the list announced by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which is called SIPRI for short. According to the ranking of this institute for 2022, the following companies had the highest revenue of weapons in the world.
Now we review the changes in the stock value of three of the above companies, before and after the assassination of Martyr Ismail Haniyeh and Martyr Fouad Shukor.
Lockheed Martin Stock Value Chart
Raytheon Technologies Stock Value Chart
Northrop Grumman Stock Value Chart
In the table below, the changes in the share values of the three mentioned companies before and after the assassination of Martyr Ismail Haniyeh and Martyr Fouad Shukor are summarized.
Indices such as the price of gold, oil or the dollar are constantly changing and fluctuating due to the countless number of their traders around the world and a group Limited and small cannot seriously affect their changes. But the value of the company’s shares depends on the decisions of a few major shareholders. Especially in the case of stocks of military and weapons manufacturing companies, this issue is more prominent. Changes in shares of companies such as Lockheed Martin or Raytheon are completely dependent on news and confidential information that reaches the few powerful and influential shareholders.
Now we want to check what important events happened in a week before the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh and Martyr Fouad Shekar, which caused these changes. Especially the fact that the value of the shares of the mentioned companies has increased at the same time.
In this regard, several important events can be investigated.
The first option is the war in Ukraine. Due to the high consumption of weapons in this war, the market of munitions companies has definitely prospered. The end of the war in Ukraine is not a new phenomenon, and it cannot be the reason for the rapid increase in the value of the mentioned shares in that period of time.
The second option is Israel’s war against the oppressed people of Gaza and providing Israel with weapons from America. The end of this war has been going on for months, and in the week before the recent assassinations, there was no significant change in this regard.
Third Option Global Internet disruption is due to a faulty update of one of the Windows security software. The result of this issue started on Thursday, July 28, equal to July 18, and it was not only related to military companies. On the other hand, the increase in the stock value of military companies due to the disruption of the Internet for a few days is completely meaningless.
Fourth Option Publishing the news of issuing a license to sell new US military weapons to Saudi Arabia, worth 2.8 billion dollars. This news, which was posted on the website of the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) on July 23, was published by several news agencies, including Turkey’s Anatolia, and was translated and published by Iran’s domestic news agencies the next day. Below is the header image of this news from the DSCA website.
According to the valid reasons that will be explained in the following, the emotional and rapid increase in the value of the shares of American weapons companies in the range of one week before the recent assassinations cannot be be related to the publication of this news. Because US arms sales to other countries are not new. In similar cases where the volume of financial transactions was much higher than this figure and even the name of the main contractor was mentioned, we have never seen any significant changes in the value of the said contractors’ shares. The number of these cases is very large and their review is beyond the scope of this report. But a few cases are mentioned as examples.
As an example, on 08/02/2022, a news was posted on the DSCA website about the sale of Patriot Air Defense System missiles worth 3 billion dollars to Saudi Arabia. The main contractor of this contract is a part of the Raytheon company, which is located in Tewksbury, in the state of Massachusetts in the eastern United States.
In the image below, you can see that within the mentioned date range, i.e., 08/02/2022, there is no significant increase in the value of Raytheon shares. Although the amount of this contract is 3.05 billion dollars, it is clearly more than the amount of the previous contract with 2.8 billion dollars.
Chart of Raytheon Technologies stock value in the range of 08/02/2022.
As another example, on 01/26/2024, two news items were posted on the DSCA website. One of them was about the sale of 40 F-35 fighter jets and some other items to the Greek government worth approximately 8.6 billion dollars. Lockheed Martin Aviation Company, located in Fort Worth, Texas, has been designated as one of the prime contractors for this contract.
Another news related to the sale of 40 new F-16 aircraft and the renovation of 79 existing F-16 aircraft in Turkey at an approximate value of 23.0 It was a billion dollars. The main contractor of this contract is Lockheed Martin located in Greenville, North Carolina.
Although the news of two important contracts with an approximate value of 31.6 billion dollars was published on the DSCA website on 01/26/2024 and the name of Lockheed Martin company is mentioned in both contracts; But in the picture below, you can see that there is no increase in the value of Lockheed Martin’s shares during the mentioned date.
There are many such examples and many points should be considered in their analysis, which are beyond the scope of this report. For example, there are many American munitions companies and they have different sub-categories that are scattered in American states. On the other hand, access to the information of such companies is extremely limited. Also, some of these companies, like Boeing, only a limited part of their production is weapons.
All these issues make it difficult to properly analyze changes in the share value of such companies. But what is certain is that the emotional and rapid increase in the value of the shares of American weapons companies in the range of a week before the assassination of Martyr Ismail Haniyeh, has nothing to do with the release of the news of the license to sell military weapons worth 2.8 billion dollars. It has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia. But there must be a convincing reason for this heavy and sudden increase in the value of the mentioned shares.
The only reasonable reason that comes to mind is that during Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States, he informed the American authorities of his decision to assassinate the martyr. Haniyeh in Tehran and the assassination of Fouad Shakar in Lebanon. This is a completely reasonable and logical possibility because these assassinations are definitely the cause of a very big tension in the Middle East region and Netanyahu knew very well that he was not allowed to take such a big risk without coordinating with the United States of America.
The war for those with power and wealth in America means an opportunity to make more profit. For them, war means selling more military weapons, and this increases the stock value of weapons manufacturing companies. The Zionist lobbies knew very well that in the event of the assassination of the mentioned people and the occurrence of a major military tension in the Middle East, they could earn huge revenues from the sale of military weapons. After learning about this issue, they could not control their greed and the rush of some of them to buy large blocks of shares of these companies, with the aim of acquiring more shares, caused some other people to become aware of it, and all of a sudden, huge amounts of money went towards buying shares. These companies flooded, and this issue has led to a rapid increase in the stock value of weapons manufacturing companies.
What should be said at the end of this report is that the vast majority of political, military, and security events show their effects in economic charts. By carefully analyzing various charts such as the dollar index, oil, gold, shares of military and civilian companies of the world, and such things, it is possible to analyze and examine the probability of some economic, political and even military events in the future, and this is an important task that relevant institutions and experts are located.
Mohammed Mahdi Momen Dost; Strategic studies expert
