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The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis Oil's Enduring Sway in U.S. Policy in the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

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It's always oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan, brushing off a recent U.N. report about the prince's role in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Asia and the Middle East, pleading with foreign leaders to support “Sentinel.”

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