A war that kicked off with the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader was never going to be easy to contain.
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But today the conflict escalated to a new and dangerous level.
Israel, with America’s apparent blessing, struck the world’s biggest natural gas field, owned by Iran and Qatar.
South Pars provides most of Iran’s power, and much of Qatar’s export wealth.
As the sky filled with black smoke, Iran’s remaining leaders vowed to reduce oil and gas installations across the region to ashes.
Blockading the Straits of Hormuz has already caused the biggest disruption to the global oil market ever.
Destroying infrastructure makes the crisis much worse even as more doubts surface about the justification for war.
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