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By George Hay
LONDON, March 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Oil prices in the mid-$80s a barrel suggest investors expect a swift end to US and Israeli attacks. That only makes sense if a post-conflict Iran is stable. Given the likelihood of continuing rule by hardliners in Tehran, relative financial calm seems misplaced.
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Iran vowed to take revenge for a U.S. torpedo attack on an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on March 4, which killed more than 80 sailors, Reuters reported on March 5.
Qatar's energy minister Saad al-Kaabi warned that war in the Middle East could "bring down the economies of the world", predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks and drive oil to $150 a barrel, the Financial Times reported on March 6.
Brent crude hit $87.3 a barrel as of 1007 GMT on March 6.
(Editing by Peter Thal Larsen and Neil Unmack; Production by Streisand Neto)
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