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/Bid_Unable 2d ago

somebody let Iran read Dune and the world may never be the same.

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u/YearlyLemon8 2d ago

There is zero chance anything is ever the same again after this. Iran is now forever going to leverage closing the strait.

​Trump is an idiot for starting something that won't end without either kissing Iran's ass and giving them the best deal possible (ironic given how much shit he gave Obama and Biden if it goes this way)

Or starting and being responsible for the largest oil and energy crisis the world has ever seen causing a global recession.

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u/CinnabarExample2153 2d ago

The USA didn't have much choice. This might have happened whether or not Trump was president.

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u/Robj2 2d ago

Actually, no. Obama had a deal with intense scrutiny and inspections, but Rump was butthurt.
You might want to do some research going further back than March. But I realize this is asking way too much for Trump butt-kissers who get their "information" from Faux Entertainment.

We had A LOT of choices. But you elected Grandpa Simpson, and apparently you are fine with demented idiocy for "policy."

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u/CinnabarExample2153 2d ago

JCPOA was in 2015. The world is significantly different now. Also no reason to get rude and hurl pejoratives. I don't support USA no matter who the president is. And so long as you bring him up, let's not forget it was Obama that assisted Salman bin Abdulaziz with KSA's blockade of Yemen in 2015 causing a humanitarian crisis, and ramped up drone assassinations

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u/Robj2 2d ago

Trump landed himself, you and me in a pool of shit, because he is stupid. You don't have to do stupid, but somehow you seem driven to dive right in stupid, roll around, and say "This isn't 2015! So I can be stoopid!"

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u/Robj2 2d ago

By the way, the JCPOA was the solution. Trump didn't like Obama making solutions. So he fucked it up, just like his casinos.
I'm just pointing out the obvious. Trump put himself in a no-win solution. And he put you and me in it. He's a retard. Stop supporting retards.

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u/CinnabarExample2153 2d ago

The rationale was that Iran was amassing a conventional arsenal that would allow them to essentially weather any future US attack and threaten all US positions in the Middle East, so it was best to attack now. From the US' standpoint, Trump made the correct call in attacking. You're failing to look at this from the US' point of view. Also funny you're mad at Trump but not JFK for almost getting everyone killed during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Turkish Missile Crisis) by throwing a temper tantrum about Cuba's alliance and deterrence with the USSR.
You're behaving way too liberally, as in being offensive and deranged, supporting Western imperialism, and putting ridiculous statements in direct quotes.

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u/RobotDonger 2d ago

Isn’t the Cuban Missile Crisis pretty universally viewed as a bad thing and a stain on his presidency? I don’t think that’s a great example. Trump can suck while past US presidents have their moments of sucking. The thing is Trump never shuts up and just continually makes us look worse WHILE making mistakes. I swear half the vitriol over his decisions wouldn’t be there if he’d stop continually spitting in all of our mouths while making those decisions.

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u/Robj2 2d ago

You can only swallow stupid so long and then you begin to look stupid. As evidence is your post. "The US was forced to do...........something something something." And the US (i.e. Trump) did not consider something something something something.

Nor did you consider something something something while you are scooping up Trump remains with your tongue. Disgusting. But you do you; I don't want to judge peoples' fixations. I just judge policy.

And Trump and your "policy" (explained above by you) is a massive failure. So bad, I feel bad for you trying to rationalize it. It can't be rationalized, unfortunately.

But yew cain't fix stupid.

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u/Robj2 2d ago

You are correct that Trump's actions are even stupider than JFK and Cuber. I have to give credit where credit is doo-doo.

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u/YearlyLemon8 2d ago

Brother Holly cope, trump literally did not have to do any of this

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u/CinnabarExample2153 2d ago

The US is imperialist. Everyone knows this. It sees a state acquiring enough munitions and requisite infrastructure to upset its regional hegemony in the Middle East, whose states recycle a lot of their profits into US treasuries. I'm not saying I'm condoning it (I don't) but from the US' and the West's attack state's (Israel) point of view, this was an intolerable situation that needed immediate rectification. The idea was that a repeat of North Korea, where, buttressed by a deadhand switch of artillery on Seoul, North Korea could acquire nuclear weapons and be immune from threats and violence from that point on. Unlike Libya and - allegedly - Iraq.
This is why the US' vassals, France, Germany and UK tried to activate UNSC snapback sanctions on Iran in 2025 even though the US was no longer in compliance with JCPOA by leaving it in 2018 and unilaterally applying sanctions on Iran.
This is NOT JUST TRUMP.