"There's nothing that #Iran could have conceded that would have deterred the long-standing #US drive to control Middle Eastern #oil… That control remains an essential arm of U.S. #foreignPolicy… ability to hurt other economies by denying them access to energy if they do not adhere to U.S. foreign policy. This insistence on blocking the world’s access to energy sources not under American control is why the U.S. has attacked #Venezuela, #Syria, #Iraq, #Libya and #Russia."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/02/the-us-israeli-attack-was-to-prevent-peace-not-advance-it/