Some participants at the two-day gathering cut straight to the chase Wednesday.
"The threat to energy, that is what this is all about," Simon Henderson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said of the West's interest in Iran.
"The Persian Gulf is the most important source of oil for the world's economy," he said. And there is no chance the United States can wean itself from the need for oil in the foreseeable...
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