Fire breaks out at the Shahran oil depot after US and Israeli attacks in Tehran, on March 8.
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Iran Leaves an Isolated Trump Grappling With Historic Oil Crisis
With a fifth of global oil paralyzed, a chaotic campaign against Tehran leaves the White House scrambling to shield the US economy.
The war in Iran once again presented Donald Trump with an intractable dilemma.
He needed to calm energy markets that were surging once more after Iran struck energy infrastructure across the Persian Gulf, retaliating for an Israeli attack Wednesday on its biggest natural gas field.