Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Since Donald Trump kicked off a March weekend by attempting to bomb a country of 90 million people back to the Stone Age, there is a question nobody in the White House has been able to answer: Why go to war with Iran? The shifting set of justifications has been pretty comical to watch, whipsawing from liberating the Iranian people to self-defense from Iranian attacks to preventing nuclear capability after a breakdown in negotiations (which was apparently not true) to payback for the 1979 revolution to the complicated tale that Iran would hit U.S. targets anyway once Israel struck first, so we might as well preempt that and get the volley of munitions started early. But in a press conference on Monday, Trump quietly hit on another rationale, one that may have more truth behind it than the others.” (03/11/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/11/iran-war-trump-saudi-arabia-gulf-state-capital-oil/