In an interview with the Financial Times and comments to NBC News, former President Trump considered the possibility of taking Iranian oil, referencing previous actions in Venezuela and options for military intervention. He also mentioned Iran's nuclear program and the ongoing efforts to negotiate a 15-point peace proposal to end the conflict.
Trump told the Financial Times that while his"favorite thing" would be to take the oil, some"stupid people" would ask,"Why are you doing that?""To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in theThe interview marks some of Trump's most direct comments about his thinking on what to do with Iran 's oil.
“You look at Venezuela,” he told NBC News. “People have thought about it, but it’s too soon to talk about that.”resident Donald Trump spoke from a cabinet meeting on Thursday to say that prior to the war, Iran was weeks away from using a nuclear bomb against Israel and the U.S. “Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,” Trump said. “It would also mean we had to be there for a while.”are arriving in the Middle East, but the president and his administration continue to signal that they are working to negotiate a 15-point proposal to end the war. Trump declined Sunday to offer specific details on whether a ceasefire deal could be reached in the coming days to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway used to move— we’ve bombed 13,000 targets — and another couple of thousand targets to go,” Trump said in the Financial Times interview. “A deal could be made fairly quickly.”
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