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DSR Daily March 19: Iran and Israel Exchange Blows as Oil Prices Skyrocket

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On the DSR Daily for Thursday, we break down the skyrocketing prices of oil, a strange and contentious confirmation hearing for Markwayne Mullin, an upcoming meeting between Trump and Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.9

Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkopf. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and Minas Stein today.

0:59.6

Like every day, we're going to take a look at a few of the big headlines, try to find a little bit of meaning in them.

1:06.6

Riley, kick us off. After Israel struck Iran's South Pars and gas field, Iran retaliated by

1:13.8

attacking Qatar's Ras Lafhan-LNG facility, causing extensive damage and a surge in global energy

1:20.8

prices. President Trump responded by threatening to, quote, massively blow up, end quote,

1:26.7

the remainder of the Iranian gas field if the

1:28.8

U.S. ally is targeted again. While Trump expressed a desire to avoid further destruction, Qatar has

1:34.7

condemned the brazen Iranian strikes and expelled Tehran's diplomats from the country.

1:40.5

Yeah, this sort of follows the pattern of everything here. If you recall, 20 seconds ago, when Riley described this, he said, after Israel struck Iran's gas fields, Iran struck Cutter's gas fields. So this whole process was triggered by Israel.

2:02.3

There is some sense that perhaps the Israelis overreached here and that the U.S. President

2:09.0

was not terribly happy with that either.

2:13.0

Loyal this morning or as of the time that we're recording this was up to around $114 a barrel.

2:21.7

That's bad.

2:23.5

There are also stories this morning that economists say, oh, we're not worried about a

2:27.4

global recession until it gets to $130 a barrel.

2:32.8

That's not too far away. That's one or two more mistakes like this away.

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