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Why the US wants to protect Iran’s oil and gas

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byJoshua Keating
Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:29 PM
Why the US wants to protect Iran’s oil and gas

The Trump administration’s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words like “lethality” and “obliteration,” so it was notable that the president seemed almost apologetic on Wednesday, when discussing an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field…

Waste gases are burned off on the South Pars gas field in Assalooyeh on Iran's Persian Gulf coast, on August 23, 2016. | Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Trump administration’s rhet… [+6631 chars]
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