{"id":216668,"date":"2026-04-01T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216668"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:48:14","slug":"why-the-u-s-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216668","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. Wants To Protect Iran&#8217;s Oil and Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words like &#8220;lethality&#8221; and &#8220;obliteration,&#8221; so it was notable that the president seemed almost apologetic on Wednesday, when discussing an Israeli strike on Iran&#8217;s South Pars gas field, which prompted Iranian retaliation against natural gas facilities in Qatar and sent global energy prices skyrocketing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/03\/21\/why_the_us_wants_to_protect_irans_oil_and_gas_694929.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216668-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpeg",90,60,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}