An Iranian woman, one tweet in the middle of the night, and $20 trillion wiped off the U.S. stock market.
Her name is Yasamin Ansari.
Her résumé reads like a script written specifically for “this day”:
A Stanford undergraduate degree and a Cambridge master’s—she’s sharp, and earned her way in.
Six years at the United Nations, building international experience and connections.
She went back to Arizona to gain experience, became a Phoenix city councilmember in 2021, and made it to deputy mayor within a few years, setting a string of records as the “youngest” and the “first Iranian American.”
In 2024, she made it into Congress and hitched herself directly to Pelosi, becoming one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars.
Then, on November 5, 2026, in the middle of the night, she posted a tweet: suspend all advanced AI research and development, immediately.
The penalties: companies that violate the order would be forcibly dissolved, and individuals could face up to 20 years in federal prison.
Silicon Valley giants and Wall Street were hit all at once, and $20 trillion vanished from the market.
Even her mentor Pelosi’s portfolio took a hit.
NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, AAPL, AVGO, MSFT, CRM… Tech and AI made up over 70% of her holdings. NVDA alone was once disclosed in a range of $5 million to $25 million.
Her mentor was heavily invested in AI; her protégé was up in the middle of the night calling to “ban AI.”
A lot of people say this woman is Iran’s “deep-cover operative.”
Is this a coincidence?
The daughter of an Iranian immigrant climbed all the way to this position, then landed a perfectly timed blow to the fattest AI bubble in the U.S. stock market. $20 trillion went up in smoke—and how many people were dragged down with it?
Her name is Yasamin Ansari.
Her résumé reads like a script written specifically for “this day”:
A Stanford undergraduate degree and a Cambridge master’s—she’s sharp, and earned her way in.
Six years at the United Nations, building international experience and connections.
She went back to Arizona to gain experience, became a Phoenix city councilmember in 2021, and made it to deputy mayor within a few years, setting a string of records as the “youngest” and the “first Iranian American.”
In 2024, she made it into Congress and hitched herself directly to Pelosi, becoming one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars.
Then, on November 5, 2026, in the middle of the night, she posted a tweet: suspend all advanced AI research and development, immediately.
The penalties: companies that violate the order would be forcibly dissolved, and individuals could face up to 20 years in federal prison.
Silicon Valley giants and Wall Street were hit all at once, and $20 trillion vanished from the market.
Even her mentor Pelosi’s portfolio took a hit.
NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, AAPL, AVGO, MSFT, CRM… Tech and AI made up over 70% of her holdings. NVDA alone was once disclosed in a range of $5 million to $25 million.
Her mentor was heavily invested in AI; her protégé was up in the middle of the night calling to “ban AI.”
A lot of people say this woman is Iran’s “deep-cover operative.”
Is this a coincidence?
The daughter of an Iranian immigrant climbed all the way to this position, then landed a perfectly timed blow to the fattest AI bubble in the U.S. stock market. $20 trillion went up in smoke—and how many people were dragged down with it?
