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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 wan
by Kapura 7mo ago
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-tonne-of-money-us-senator-graham-on-us-war-on-iran https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/we-are-going-make-a-...
- throw0101c 7mo ago> 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 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution