{"id":9631,"date":"2026-03-30T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/30\/trump-threatens-seize-iran-oil-khark-island-us-pakistani-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:30:23","slug":"trump-threatens-seize-iran-oil-khark-island-us-pakistani-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/30\/trump-threatens-seize-iran-oil-khark-island-us-pakistani-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens to Seize Iranian Oil and Khark Island in Financial Times Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, President of the United States, stated in an interview published by the Financial Times that &#8220;my preferred option is to seize Iran\u2019s oil.&#8221; He also mentioned the possibility of capturing Khark Island, adding that the U.S. might remain there for some time.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Al Jazeera citing the British newspaper, Trump said, &#8220;Maybe we will take Khark Island, maybe not, which means we would need to stay there for a while.&#8221; Khark Island is one of Iran\u2019s key oil export hubs in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. president also commented on the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying, &#8220;We have not heard anything about him at all.&#8221; He further claimed that Iran lacks effective defensive capabilities and that the United States could &#8220;very easily&#8221; seize Khark Island.<\/p>\n<p>In another part of his remarks, Trump asserted that the United States has bombed 13,000 targets in Iran, with about 3,000 targets remaining. He did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the U.S. president said that negotiations through Pakistani envoys are &#8220;going well,&#8221; suggesting the possibility of a swift agreement. Iranian officials have not publicly responded to these statements so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump threatens to seize Iran&#8217;s oil and Khark Island, claiming US military superiority while talks via Pakistani envoys proceed positively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}