The U.S. should support Saudi Arabian retaliation against Iran for its attacks on Saudi oil facilities.

While President Trump is rightly focused on a sanctions-centric rather than military-centric policy towards Iran, this latest attack is intolerable. It was designed and effected to disrupt energy price stability and threaten the global economy. Those responsible, almost certainly Iran’s hard-liner aligned Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, must face significant consequences. Absent those consequences, the hard-liners will be encouraged to keep believing their escalation is clever.

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