{"id":333425,"date":"2026-06-16T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-threatens-to-seize-kharg-island-and-other-iran-oil-infrastructure.html"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:01:21","slug":"trump-threatens-to-seize-kharg-island-and-other-iran-oil-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-threatens-to-seize-kharg-island-and-other-iran-oil-infrastructure.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to seize Kharg Island and other Iran oil infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shortly after making those threats, Trump told Fox News that he is not sure “America has the stomach” to take Kharg. The U.S. is continuing to hold talks with Iran, the president said. <\/p>\n

“I think they’d like to see us come home, but we did it with Venezuela,” Trump told Fox in a live phone call. “Venezuela’s worked out great for everybody.”<\/p>\n

The president said he would prefer not to bomb Iran’s power plants when asked by Fox. Trump made such threats earlier in the war. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration has basically taken control of Venezuela<\/a>‘s oil exports since the U.S. ousted former President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a military raid in January. The revenues from Venezuela’s oil sales are deposited in a Treasury Department account. Venezuela’s oil shipments are sent to the U.S. Gulf Coast where the crude is refined. <\/p>\n

Trump has escalated military pressure on Iran this week as he has grown frustrated with Tehran for not quickly agreeing to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and abandon its nuclear program. The latest round of escalation this week began when Trump held Iran responsible for shooting down a U.S. Apache helicopter in Hormuz. <\/p>\n

“We dropped $250 million worth of bombs on them last night,” Trump told Fox. “You know, the whole thing is crazy, but they’re really in submission. They just don’t know it yet.” <\/p>\n

Iran so far has refused to meet Trump’s demands. Tehran has claimed control over the Strait of Hormuz, the key sea lane through which Middle East exporters shipped 20% of the world’s oil supplies before the war.<\/p>\n

Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-says-us-will-seize-kharg-island-and-other-oil-infrastructure-points.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATCH LIVE Shortly after making those threats, Trump told Fox News that he is not sure “America has the stomach” to take Kharg. The U.S. is continuing to hold talks with Iran, the president said. “I think they’d like to see us come home, but we did it with Venezuela,” Trump told Fox in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-333425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}