Republican senator begs Trump for a 1970s-style embargo to lower diesel prices the war he defends caused.

As it ran on the front

A United Nations inquiry has already found the Iran war likely committed war crimes. The administration keeps defending it anyway, and the sequence since has run in one direction only.

By September 4, diesel had hit an all-time high of $5.85 a gallon, a record the wire tied directly to the war's disruption of energy markets. The next day, Common Dreams reported Republicans fretting: their own internal polling showed voters blaming President Trump for the price. On September 9, the president acknowledged on the record that the war would not end before the midterms; the same week, Iranian officials said U.S. bombing and blockade had left the country short roughly 800 medicines. On September 10, Defense Secretary Hegseth described "devastation" to Iran's capabilities, present tense, as though the war were still producing results measured in wreckage rather than relief. On September 11, diesel crossed $6 a gallon for the first time, then kept climbing to $6.06 — a 14 percent jump in a month, 64 percent over the year before. The war has since carried an invoice past $40 billion, and the administration has not stopped defending it, has not paused it, has not priced it as a cost anyone in Washington intends to absorb.…