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Trump Says “Yes We Can” to Tehran

January 7, 2020 By Debbie Young

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in remarks and signing ceremony for Sl.1790, the National Defense Authorization (NDAA) Act for Fiscal Year 2020, in Hanger 6 at Andrews Air Force Base Friday, December 20, 2019, in Maryland, before leaving for Mar-a-Lago for the holidays. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Give Praise to Fracking?

In 2013, when President Obama sent forces to help Iraqi Kurds repel Islamic State, disapproving commentators talked oil “front and center” as the motivating force. As Holman Jenkins in the WSJ reports, “A writer at the New Republic assured readers that oil lies near the center of American motives for intervention.”

Iran’s Fading Oil Impact

“Events are in the driver’s seat, but don’t hold your breath for the regional explosion that some are predicting,” continues Mr. Jenkins.

By every account, the U.S. had Soleimani in its sights many times over the years but concern for wider consequences always stayed its trigger finger until now. Soleimani was responsible for outrages around the world. He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq. In the past decade, he was the chief proponent of Iran’s expanding proxy wars in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and the Gaza Strip.

Iranian leaders in decades past could calculate that terrorist actions and oil disruptions aimed at third-party countries would be effective ways to pressure a U.S. president. Less so now.

President Trump, through no particular virtue of his own, just doesn’t need to care as much as his predecessors did. Add his temperamental indifference to allies and the outside world.

Things Not Going Well in Iran

Francis Menton’s charts in the Manhattan Contrarian show that Iran’s oil production has fallen about in half over the past year – “a disaster for a country that depends on oil production for most of its export earnings and government budget.”

Acknowledging that he might be wrong, Mr. Jenkins doesn’t see that Iran “has many tricks up its sleeve that would come close to damaging the U.S.” as much as Iran would damage itself.

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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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