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Trump shares 1987 clip urging seizure of Iranian oil, now threatens to assassinate Irans vitality web sites if Hormuz stays closed, as US Iran struggle enters fifth week
Donald Trump is heard urging a forceful response, announcing the US ought to “take grasp of indubitably one of their colossal oil installations.”
Amid escalating tensions between US, Israel and Iran, US President Donald Trump shared a decades-old video of himself advocating the seizure of Iranian oil assets, bringing renewed attention to his long-held views on the issue.
The clip shared on Truth Social on Tuesday (local time), from a 1987 interview on 20/20 with journalist Barbara Walters, showed a then 41-year-old Trump arguing that the United States should respond to Iranian actions by taking control of its oil infrastructure.
“You go in… you take the oil,” Trump said within the interview, suggesting it with a conception to recover losses and deter future attacks in preserving with the quiz how this kind of circulate would play out, pointing to the dangers of escalation or protection power involvement.
The interview took role right thru the Iran-Iraq Battle, when tensions had been high within the Strait of Hormuz, a indispensable world oil transport route.
Within the video, Trump criticised what he described as American weakness and suggested yelp motion against Iran’s oil infrastructure. “Why couldn’t we high-tail in and rob over about a of their oil, which is along the sea?” he can be heard saying in the clip.
The video went further, with Trump advocating a more aggressive response if Iran attacked the US again.
“The next time Iran attacks this country, go in and grab one of their big oil installations, I mean grab it and keep it, and get back your losses, because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.”
Trump shared the video after the US President threatened to explode Iran’s vitality infrastructure, oil wells and the Kharg Island if talks fail and if the Strait of Hormuz is no longer reopened.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “The US of America is in extreme discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to total our Military Operations in Iran.”
“Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will have the choice to discontinue our stunning “stop” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.” This may per chance per chance be in retribution for our many troopers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the previous Regime’s 47 Three hundred and sixty five days “Reign of Fright’,” he added.
Earlier Trump said that the war against Iran has achieved regime change, while remaining hopeful about a possible ceasefire deal. The conflict in West Asia, triggered by the US-Israel airstrikes on Iran on February 28, has entered its fifth week. Iran has hit back hard by bombing US assets in Gulf countries.
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Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
First Published:
March 31, 2026, 04:25 IST
News world ‘Go In… Take Their Oil’: Trump Shares His Old Video On Iran Amid New ‘Obliterate’ Warning
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