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Re:Oil is near a price that hurts the economy by Kapura on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:07PM (#47313850)
It's not just the ideologues; it's the people with vested interests in seeing oil companies continue to dominate. Lindsey Graham has been pretty mask-off in wanting to take control of Iran's oil resources and, in his words, "make a ton of money."

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/we-are-going-make-a-...

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Re:Oil is near a price that hurts the economy by throw0101c on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @07:26AM (#47321784)
> Lindsey Graham has been pretty mask-off in wanting to take control of Iran's oil resources and, in his words, "make a ton of money."

Which kind of set all of this off back in the day: UK/US oil companies controlled Iranian oil, the legislature nationalized it, the Shah suppressed the legislature and portions of the population:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

the population got tired of being pushed down, and so eventually fought back:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

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