Why Israel is attacking Iran is clear. Why Trump is, is a much more complicated answer. And it has nothing to do with ‘freedom’ for Iranian people.

First, energy. Iran possesses the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves and one of the largest oil reserves. Sanctions have kept those hydrocarbons largely outside Western markets. A reintegrated Iran would not merely sell oil; it would redraw the global energy map. Iranian energy supply, once politically unthinkable, now sits in the realm of strategic possibility. Opening Iran’s fields to Western capital would not simply be commercial – it would be geopolitical.

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