War against Iran: Washington acknowledges wanting to secure oil flows

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday defended the Trump administration's strategy in the face of growing criticism over the length of the conflict with Iran, admitting that the mission had refocused on securing oil supplies.

Sixteen American soldiers killed, ceasefires successively agreed upon and then broken, and promised diplomatic breakthroughs that are slow to materialize: the war launched in February against Iran is provoking growing discontent in the United States. Two more soldiers have died in Jordan, bringing the total death toll to sixteen on the American side.

Guest of the show This Week On ABC, Chris Wright had to address his own earlier statements, in which he asserted that the conflict should have ended long ago. The Energy Secretary defended the Trump administration's strategy without providing a specific timeline for resolving the conflict.

The most notable revelation of his intervention concerns the very nature of American objectives: according to Wright, the mission has evolved towards guaranteeing the free movement of oil, a formulation that implicitly points to the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint through which a significant portion of global hydrocarbon exports pass.

On the Democratic side, criticism is becoming more scathing. Opposition lawmakers are openly calling this conflict a "war of choice," questioning the very necessity of American military involvement. This parliamentary pressure is compounded by the impatience of a segment of the public with a conflict whose duration has exceeded the administration's initial projections.