“President Trump’s threat to ‘obliterate’ Iranian power plants set off a cascade of alarm bells around the region with Tehran saying it would respond in kind,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Oil-exporting Gulf countries said Iranian reprisals could further endanger the world economy.”
The Guardian: Iran vows to destroy Middle East water and energy facilities if US attacks power plants.
Axios: Oil prices volatile after Trump’s Strait of Hormuz threat.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.