WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has intensified his rhetoric regarding a potential seizure of Iran’s Kharg Island, vowing to take the major oil terminal in the “not too distant future” to “assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.” While the president has used social media to escalate threats against the island, he has also acknowledged the complications of a ground invasion.

Trump said the forthcoming operations to take over Iran's oil infrastructure, and its oil and gas markets, would be similar to U.S. actions in Venezuela.

After two nights of US and Iran trading blows, US president says America will hit Iran 'very hard' and take Kharg Island 'at some point in the not too distant future,' as CENTCOM…