{"id":34911,"date":"2026-04-01T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=34911"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:02:19","slug":"trump-says-his-preference-would-be-to-take-the-oil-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=34911","title":{"rendered":"Trump says his \u2018preference\u2019 would be to \u2018take the oil in Iran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1774621271974_now_mnn_sanchez_hormuz_hustle_260327_S3_1920x1080-gd8e8i.jpg.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"1774621271974_now_mnn_sanchez_hormuz_hustle_260327_S3_1920x1080-gd8e8i.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a6905c\" class=\"body-graf\">President Donald Trump said Sunday that he would like to \u201ctake the oil in Iran\u201d and is considering seizing the export hub of Kharg Island, which is responsible for more than<strong> <\/strong>90% of Iran\u2019s oil exports.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"styles_subscriptionCTA__LOUeY\" id=\"subscriptionCTA\" type=\"button\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMjQiIGhlaWdodD0iMTQiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAyNCAxNCIgZmlsbD0ibm9uZSIgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnIj4KPGcgY2xpcC1wYXRoPSJ1cmwoI2NsaXAwXzM3M18yNjg3KSI CjxwYXRoIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCIgY2xpcC1ydWxlPSJldmVub2RkIiBkPSJNMTUuMTAwNiAwLjA2ODU1NTdDMTMuNTEwNiAtMC4zMDg5ODUgMTIuMDM5IDAuOTI3ODg0IDEyLjIwMjQgMi42MjQ5NEgxMi4yMDQzSDEzLjIzNDVDMTMuMjM0NSAyLjYyNDk0IDEzLjcxNTQgMi42MTkzIDEzLjg1NTMgMi45NDMzMUMxMy44NTUzIDIuOTQzMzEgMTIuMzMwMSAzLjUyMDg5IDEyLjQ1MTMgNC40NTkxMUwxMy40MDA4IDExLjM2MUwxNi43MjM1IDMuNDE3NTlDMTcuMjMwNiAyLjIxMTcxIDE2LjY2NDMgMC40MzI5NDggMTUuMTAwNiAwLjA2ODU1NTdaIiBmaWxsPSIjNjc1RUE5Ii8 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alt=\"NBC News Icon\" class=\"styles_icon__wRwWv\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"styles_textWrapper__vxvko\">\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB styles_textLarge__qlzwu\">Subscribe to read this story ad-free    <\/p>\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB\">Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2026-01\/arrow-f55fa5.svg\" alt=\"arrow\" class=\"styles_arrow__tnruW\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e8e4d1\" class=\"body-graf\">In an interview with the Financial Times, Trump said his \u201cpreference would be to take the oil.\u201d <\/p>\n<div id=\"taboolaReadMoreBelow\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"anchor-0af557\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cTo be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the U.S. say: \u2018Why are you doing that?\u2019 But they\u2019re stupid people,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-cc7441\" class=\"body-graf\">The interview marks some of Trump\u2019s most direct comments about his thinking on what to do with Iran\u2019s oil. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ded307\" class=\"body-graf\">In an interview with NBC News this month, Trump sidestepped answering whether he had plans to try to take Iran\u2019s oil. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-676c64\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cYou look at Venezuela,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople have thought about it, but it\u2019s too soon to talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-368c28\" class=\"body-graf\">In January, the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and proceeded to take more control over the country\u2019s oil industry. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c116df\" class=\"body-graf\">The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f4d455\" class=\"body-graf\">Trump told the Financial Times on Sunday that the U.S. has \u201ca lot of options,\u201d including potentially taking Kharg Island, a rare island made of hard coral off Iran. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-49bc44\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cMaybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don\u2019t. We have a lot of options,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8c8256\" class=\"body-graf\">Oil prices have skyrocketed around the globe as the war continues, with U.S. crude oil costing over $100 a barrel Sunday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8785a5\" class=\"body-graf\">Thousands more U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East, with the USS Tripoli arriving on Saturday as part of a complement of 3,500 troops. But Trump and his administration continue to signal that they are working to negotiate a 15-point proposal to end the war. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ff0957\" class=\"body-graf\">Trump declined Sunday to offer specific details about whether a ceasefire deal could be reached in the coming days to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway used to move about 20% of the world\u2019s oil exports.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d7208d\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got about 3,000 targets left \u2014 we\u2019ve bombed 13,000 targets \u2014 and another couple of thousand targets to go,\u201d Trump said in the Financial Times interview. \u201cA deal could be made fairly quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Sunday that he would like to \u201ctake the oil in Iran\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230,232],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}