Travis County fire crews respond to fire at two-story residence<\/a><\/p>\nIn Austin, people went to the Texas Capitol to share their views. Some Austinites who said they are from Iran celebrated the coordinated attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just want to say this is not war to us,” Sholeh Zendehdel, who lives in Austin, said. “All of the Iranian people, inside and outside, we are all happy for what happened.” <\/p>\n
Others at the Capitol urged an end to conflict. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt just shows that our government does not represent the will of the people. Because the people do not want another war in the middle east. The people want peace,\u201d said PJ Cornell, identified as the Central Region Officer for the American Communist Party of Texas.<\/p>\n
Retired U.S. Army Col. Joe Buccino said \u201cthinking that something is wise and thinking that it’s necessary are two completely different things.”<\/p>\n
He said what the U.S. government does next will determine the attack\u2019s effectiveness, and he warned the conflict could affect oil prices for Texans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIran holds the third largest oil reserve in the world. We saw in 1979 when the regime and the Ayatollah overthrew the Shah. We saw an oil shock that really impacted the United States. I think we’re going to see that again,\u201d Buccino said.<\/p>\n
He also described scenarios that could drive oil prices higher. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf they started striking Kuwaiti tankers in the Arabian Gulf, we’d see a real shock in oil prices. If they start hitting Saudi oil facilities, that would really be a problem for oil prices,\u201d Buccino said. <\/p>\n
Buccino also said the regime could potentially not allow any ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
As the conflict continues, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered additional security across Texas. <\/p>\n
“I have directed the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard to ramp up surveillance and patrols at key sites\u2014including our vital energy facilities, ports, and southern border,” Abbott said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In Washington, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged that House Democrats will force a vote on limiting President Trump\u2019s war powers after the strike happened without explicit congressional authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A U.S. and Israeli strike on Iran that left dozens dead, including the nation\u2019s supreme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-185167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}