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The US-Israeli war against Iran was initially about military capabilities — Iran’s nuclear program, its ballistic missiles, its armed proxies — but very quickly became a war about energy.

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It was Iran’s ability to choke global energy supplies that forced US President Donald Trump to effectively stop the war.

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