The price of oil fell by 2.2% just minutes after news spread that US National Security Advisor John Bolton was out of a job. In an instant, the prospect of a catastrophic war in the Middle East seemed to recede dramatically | Analysis by bencnn
Bolton is famously the man who never met a war he didn't like . And conflict with Iran was the war he seemed to like most.In 2015, he penned an editorial in the New York Times entitled"To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran." He was a regular speaker at the annual meetings of Mujahedin-e-Khalq , an Iranian exile group which for years was hosted by Saddam Hussain, and which until 2012 was on the US State Department's terrorist list.
Acosta presses Mnuchin: Is national security team a mess? 02:51Just two days later -- a few hours after Bolton's departure -- Pompeo said Trump could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani"with no preconditions." With Bolton out of the way, such a meeting can now go ahead without much resistance within the Trump White House.It's not clear, however, what might come out of a Trump-Rouhani meeting.
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