Iran has reportedly prepared for an all-out, multi-layered and comprehensive war against its adversaries, Press TV reports, citing a source

Iran has reportedly prepared for an all-out, multi-layered and comprehensive war against its adversaries, Press TV reports, citing a source.

Rhetoric of this kind out of Iranian state-affiliated media is a recurring feature of escalation cycles and has historically carried limited standalone signal; the pattern in past episodes is that prepared-war language functions as deterrence signalling rather than as confirmation of imminent action, and desks have learned to discount the wording itself in favour of observable posture changes. The distinction that has mattered is between declaratory escalation, which typically fades without market follow-through, and verifiable movement of assets: air defence activation, naval deployments in the strait, proxy group readiness. Where genuine conflict has preceded, the transmission has run through crude via the risk premium on Gulf supply and freight and insurance costs in the strait, with gold and the front end of the oil curve the established first movers before any equity repricing. The source being state media rather than an independent or adversarial channel lowers the information content relative to, say, shipping or satellite corroboration. Follow-ons worth noting are any official statements from the other parties involved, tanker rate behaviour, and whether the language is echoed by officials rather than an unnamed source. As a headline this is noise-level unless the physical tells begin to corroborate it.