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A 47% Bet on a Blockade: What Polymarket's Iran Odds Are Really Telling Us

Prediction markets are pricing a serious chance of a US naval blockade of Iran by year-end. Treating those odds as idle speculation misses the point — they are a real-time thermometer on a drifting escalation.

Daniel Whitmore · Monexus Opinion desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·9 Jul 2026·Live on the wire ↗
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  • https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2074853844769456129
  • https://x.com/polymarket/status/2074843225727152128
  • https://x.com/polymarket/status/2074843012560486400

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