Trump renews threats on Iranian infrastructure
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has posted on social media another warning that he would, in his words, 'obliterate' Kharg island and Iran's power plants, if the Strait of Hormuz is not immediately reopened to allow oil and gas tankers to travel freely.
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(Picture: President Trump on Air Force One. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:14.8 | I'm Leila Nathu. |
| 0:16.2 | Five, four, three, two, one, zero. |
| 0:22.4 | Lift-off. |
| 0:23.2 | We have a liftoff. |
| 0:25.0 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. |
| 0:29.4 | Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. |
| 0:33.3 | The words of U.S. President John F. Kennedy there, marking the first time that astronauts went to the moon in 1969. |
| 0:41.1 | On Wednesday, NASA plans to go back. We'll hear why in about 15 minutes time. |
| 0:47.1 | But first, Donald Trump has set hairs running again with his latest comments to reporters about the war with Iran. |
| 0:53.6 | He told the Financial Times newspaper, |
| 0:56.0 | he wanted to take Iran's oil |
| 0:57.6 | and could seize its key fuel hub of Khag Island |
| 1:01.3 | that handles almost all of its oil exports. |
| 1:04.7 | Thousands of US troops are massing in the region, |
| 1:07.0 | even though President Trump said he thought he could make a deal |
| 1:09.7 | with Iran's new leaders, |
| 1:11.4 | who he described as very reasonable. |
| 1:13.9 | Iran's parliamentary speaker, meanwhile, Mohamed Bahagal-Galibov, |
| 1:17.8 | who himself has been touted as a possible central figure in any talks, |
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