{"id":12012,"date":"2019-10-02T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T17:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:06:38","slug":"keep-it-steady-and-cool-with-iran-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/keep-it-steady-and-cool-with-iran-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep It Steady and Cool with Iran, America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expect more desperate Iranian efforts to prompt a U.S. military response in the Persian Gulf. Trump\u2019s sanctions have cut off 90 percent of Iran\u2019s oil revenues. Soon Tehran\u2019s shattered economy will be followed by more pent-up domestic unrest of the sort that Barack Obama ignored in 2009, when he felt that the continued viability of the murderous theocracy fed his bizarre dreams of enhancing a new Shiite, Persian hegemony to counterbalance the Sunni Arabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, America\u2019s newfound role as the largest gas and oil producer in the world has not only lessened the importance of imported oil, whether from enemies such as Iran and Venezuela, or purported friends like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies. In a weird way, it has also turned the last half-century of oil politics upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions in the Gulf now help as much as hurt the United States. America is soon slated also to become the world\u2019s largest exporter of gas and oil. Any increased costs for importing overseas oil will be offset by greater profits from American exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/10\/us-foreign-policy-iran-keep-it-steady-and-cool\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Expect more desperate Iranian efforts to prompt a U.S. military response in the Persian Gulf. Trump\u2019s sanctions have cut off 90 percent of Iran\u2019s oil revenues. Soon Tehran\u2019s shattered economy will be followed by more pent-up domestic unrest of the sort that Barack Obama ignored in 2009, when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3501,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/so-whos-afraid-of-an-iranian-bomb\/","url_meta":{"origin":12012,"position":0},"title":"So Who&#8217;s Afraid of an Iranian Bomb?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services At first glance, it would seem a straightforward thing to stop a relatively weak but volatile Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. 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