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But this isn't spooking Tehran, which qualified for the tournament, and said earlier this week that it plans to participate.

And one clarification about last Saturday's show about U.S.

shale in the Middle East.

While Mike Summers, CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, stressed the importance of restoring traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the API would like to clarify that the group does not have an opinion on the U.S.

government's deployment of American troops to Iran.

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