‘Trump only wants to look strong & raise oil prices by threatening to shoot at Iranian gunboats’

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Neither Washington nor Tehran are looking for war, and Trump ordering the US Navy to destroy “harassing” Iranian vessels was likely an attempt to flex his muscles and send a signal to the oil markets, analysts have told RT.

“We have to distinguish between declarations and reality on the ground, where nobody wants a conflict” as it would be a “disaster” for both the US and Iran, Thierry Coville, research fellow at the French research organization IRIS, said.

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