Middle East crisis live: Trump says he wants to ‘take the oil’ in Iran and could seize Kharg Island ‘easily’
US president tells Financial Times his ‘preference would be to take the oil’ but that ‘some stupid people back in the US say: why are you doing that?’
The newspaper quotes him as saying his “preference would be to take the oil”, comparing the potential move to Venezuela, where the US intends to control the oil industry “indefinitely” following its ousting of president Nicolás Maduro in January.
he admits he wants iranian oil but some 'stupid' people in the u.s. would question it. for him the u.s. is just a profit making organization to benefit himself and his fellow billionaires.