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Scoop: U.S. asks Israel to halt strikes on Iran's energy infrastructure

Barak Ravid

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The Trump administration cited three reasons for its request, according to a source with knowledge of the matter:

Such strikes harm the Iranian public, a large portion of which opposes the regime.
Trump aims to cooperate with Iran's oil sector after the war — similar to the approach he has taken with Venezuela.
The strikes could trigger massive Iranian retaliatory attacks on energy infrastructure across Gulf states.

Between the lines: Iran attacked Gulf energy facilities with drones earlier in the war, but did not cause significant or irreversible damage.

The U.S. concern is that a new round of strikes on Iranian oil could change that calculus — and send prices even higher.
A source familiar with the details said Trump views strikes on Iran's energy and oil facilities as a "doomsday option" — something to be held in reserve only if Iran deliberately attacks Gulf oil facilities first.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the Republican Party's most vocal supporters of the war, also criticized the Israeli strikes on the fuel depots.

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