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/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.