President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States may take control of Iran’s oil and gas industries like it did in Venezuela earlier this year. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo
June 11 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States may take control of Iran's oil and gas industries like it did in Venezuela earlier this year.
Trump posted the threat on social media, warning that the United States will continue attacking Iran after a series of airstrikes on Wednesday.
"The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT," Trump wrote. "At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America."
About 90% of Iran's crude oil shipments were exported from Kharg Island before the United States and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28.
