India, April 13 -- Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf fired an unusual salvo at the United States this week - not in the language of diplomats or even satirists, but using a formula from mathematics.

In a post on X, Ghalibaf warned that American pressure on Iran could trigger a chain reaction in global oil markets, so severe that Americans would look back fondly on today's fuel prices.

"Enjoy the current pump figures. With the so-called 'blockade', soon you'll be nostalgic for $4-5 gas," he wrote.

With it he wrote a statistical formula: ΔO_BSOH > 0 => f(f(O)) > f(O). Looks intimidating, so we'll come to that.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf holds a PhD, like many other Iranian leaders. His doctorate is in Political Geogr...