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Bureau: Jerusalem
South Pars, Ras Laffan, refineries, tankers, and insurance markets are now one story. The war is no longer merely affecting energy prices. It is moving through the infrastructure that makes the global energy system work.
Tulsi Gabbard says the Iranian regime remains intact though degraded. Al Jazeera's reporting on the post-assassination chain of command points to the same reality: decapitation changed Iran's political shape, but not in the clean, collapse-inducing way many outside observers assumed.
After damage at Ras Laffan, Qatar ordered Iran's military and security attachés to leave within 24 hours. That move matters because it signals the Gulf's balancing acts are getting harder to maintain once energy infrastructure is directly hit.