April 30, 2026
Trump said Iran’s oil pipelines will soon ‘explode.’ Energy experts doubt it.
“That is not how it works,” Rosemary Kelanic, an energy scholar and director of the Middle East Program at the foreign policy think tank Defense Priorities, said of Trump’s predictions that Iran’s oil pipelines would soon detonate and that its energy industry is on the verge of collapse. “Nothing is going to self-destruct.”
…“This is the latest theory of victory they have seized on, not because it makes a lot of sense, but because it is quick and easy and has a time frame they like,” Kelanic of Defense Priorities said.
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