{"id":216730,"date":"2026-04-02T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216730"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:48:11","slug":"why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216730","title":{"rendered":"Why the US wants to protect Iran\u2019s oil and gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words like \u201clethality\u201d and \u201cobliteration,\u201d so it was notable that the president seemed almost apologetic on Wednesday, when discussing an Israeli strike on Iran\u2019s South Pars gas field, which prompted Iranian retaliation against natural gas facilities in Qatar and sent global [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/483440\/pars-iran-qatar-oil-gas-hormuz\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216730","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\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpg",1200,624,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpg",1200,624,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas.jpg",1200,624,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/216730-why-the-us-wants-to-protect-irans-oil-and-gas-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"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\/216730","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=216730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}