Trump and Iran Strike Defiant Tone as Oil Markets See Little Relief
A worker sits amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed following an attack in Tehran on March 12.
Photographer: Majid Saeedi/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump and Iran’s new supreme leader both struck defiant tones on the 13th day of the war, offering little relief to energy markets despite fresh US efforts to curb oil prices.
The American president said in a social media post Thursday that preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons and threatening the Middle East is “of far greater interest and importance to me” than the cost of oil.