Amid negotiations with Iran to stop the regime’s war with Israel and the United States, which completed one month on Saturday (28), American President Donald Trump said he would like to “take” the Persian country’s oil and that Washington could occupy a strategic island for this sector of the Iranian economy.
“To be honest, my favorite idea is to take Iran’s oil, but some stupid people in the United States say, ‘Why are you doing this?’ But they are stupid people,” Trump said in an interview with the British newspaper Financial Times, published this Sunday (29).
The American president suggested that the United States could occupy Kharg Island, through which 90% of Iran’s oil exports pass.
“Maybe we’ll take Kharg Island, maybe we won’t. We have a lot of options,” Trump said in the interview. “It would also mean that we would have to stay there [na Ilha de Kharg] for a while.”
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon is expected to send an additional 10,000 infantry troops to the Middle East, a contingent that would be allocated at a distance that allows attacks on mainland Iran and Kharg Island.
The Iranian regime responded with bravado, saying that its forces “are awaiting” the arrival of American troops.
