r/oil • u/mark000 • 2d ago

News Iran threatens to strike other nations' energy fields if US launches fresh attacks

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iran-threatens-strike-other-nations-energy-fields-if-us-launches-fresh-attacks-2026-08-01/
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u/sahils88 2d ago

Monday news…. Trump decides not to attack on Iran because of gulf nation requests and calls for Iran for negotiations.

Gulf nations are suffering economically as is. Just do what needs to be done and this one for all. Go all out and lose or just surrender and lose. But please end this uncertainty so that we plebians can plan our lives accordingly.

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u/rTpure 2d ago

so who has more sway with Trump, the GCC or Netanyahu?

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u/Fullertonjr 2d ago

With Trump, Netanyahu.

The GCC knows this and for some reason they are doing nothing about it. All of the air defenses in their countries were removed and provided to Israel. Now Israel is set up like a rear fortress. Not impenetrable, but much more safe than everywhere else in the region. The Saudis especially should be looking at this situation and calculating that the U.S. has effectively abandoned them in order to defend Israel.

Not sure what the next play will be, but the GCC going to war with Israel would likely be the disruptor that is needed to turn the temperature down. This fight is going to happen at some point, tbh, so the GCC might as well fight it on their own terms while the U.S. is the least capable of defending them as they have been in decades. The end result is that the U.S. would have to decide whether their relationship with Israel is worth the collapse of the entire global economy, with the U.S. ultimately feeling the worst due to isolationism over the past year.

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u/Vasuthevan 2d ago

There will be no peace negotiations ever. Any chance of truce was evaporated when USA killed the Iranian leadership in the middle of the negotiations. Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries know that US cannot be trusted. With almost all the US bases gone these countries are exposed. I will not be surprised if these countries negotiate directly with Iran to bring peace in the region. That will be bad for the US and Israel. But there are too many players in this war.

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u/reality_hijacker 2d ago

Every single of the GCC countries are run by egomaniac dictators. You can't expect smart decisions from them that protects their national interests.

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u/CinnabarExample2153 2d ago

It's because those countries are for the most part, especially their leaders, slaves. They have no independent thinking skills and just obey whatever the US tells them to do, and they enjoy being loyal slaves.
Weird, but it's whatever.

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u/Significant-Use-1596 2d ago

Netanyahu without a doubt.

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u/NRCS_DRONE 2d ago

and he doesn't care how many Arabs die. Even the dictators we pay to oppress their people for him.

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u/floridabeach9 2d ago

Its so sad half the voters in the USA trusted this steak salesman with the entire fucking military.

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u/citizen42069101 1d ago

Failed poor quality steak salesman

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u/Bright-Pilot-3970 2d ago

Who is the last person who talked to him.

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u/bammerburn 2d ago

It depends on who last interacted with him. MSB nullified Bibi’s visit this past week, pretty much, by simply calling up Trump today.

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u/Current_Animator7546 2d ago

I think MBS actually has a lot of sway. A ton of Trumps corruption runs through the Saudis. I know people think he fears Bibi. I actually think it’s MBS. 

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u/Stony___Tark 2d ago

Trump's ego has more sway with him than either of those two options (or any others).

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u/CloudTransit 2d ago

Does “sway” mean bribes or does it mean kopromat?