Iran is Playing a Risky Game With its Oil Fields
The fact that Iran appears especially anxious to start moving oil through the strait underlines its importance to the regime.
John M. Contino | May 25, 2026
There are many good reasons President Trump wants the war with Iran to end as soon as possible. Every other day, it seems, another peace deal is floated that gets buried before getting off the ground.
The WSJ reports that
There was widespread concern in Israel that the deal -- a memorandum of understanding that would get oil tankers and other traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz but put off the question of Iran’s nuclear program until later -- would ease the economic and military pressure on Tehran when a regime Israel considers an existential threat is at a weak point.
Gulf Arab states, meanwhile, were eager to avoid further attacks on their energy facilities and get their oil sales moving again, but were grappling with the prospect that a deal would leave Iran with an overt role managing the strait and emboldened to use military threats to get its way in future disputes with its neighbors after the U.S. armada moves on.
It’s in everyone’s interest that traffic start moving through the Strait of Hormuz, but the fact that Iran appears especially anxious to start moving oil through the strait underlines its importance to the regime.
We don’t normally think of the large Middle East oil fields are delicate beasts, but that is what they are.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/iran_is_playing_a_risky_game_with_its_oil_fields.html
