Trump to take Iran’s oil? | Football fans against VAR
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
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Summary
Overnight, US President Donald Trump has said the US should "take the oil in Iran" and is considering seizing the country's strategic oil hub of Kharg Island.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country's operation in southern Lebanon will be expanded, as the UN peacekeeping mission there confirmed the death of a peacekeeper.
Sir Keir Starmer is meeting Britain's largest energy suppliers today as we hear increased warnings of fuel shortages as a result of the war in the Middle East.
Counter-terror officers are assisting a police investigation after pedestrians were struck by a car in Derby city centre.
Two in three teachers say their schools rely on donations and funding because of insufficient funds, a survey by the National Education Union has found.
And finally, 75% of Premier League fans are opposed to the use of VAR.
Anna and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:10.2 | President Donald Trump has come out with some pretty punchy statements overnight, saying the US should take the oil in Iran. |
| 0:17.4 | The PMs, Kirstama, is meeting Britain's largest energy suppliers today with warnings of fuel |
| 0:22.8 | shortages as a result of the war in the Middle East. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news on Monday the 30th of March. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Wilfred Frost. And I'm Anna Jones. Also today, do football fans support the use of VAR? No. Well, good morning, everyone. And good morning, Anna. Good morning, Wilf. It's great to be here with you where we'll be in these seats respectively for the next four days as we lead up to Easter. And I'm very much looking forward to it.. I know me too. It's nice to be at the same |
| 0:54.6 | time of the week as you. Exactly. Still offensively early in the day regardless. So overnight, |
| 1:00.2 | President Trump has said the US should take the oil in Iran and is considering seizing the country's |
| 1:05.2 | strategic oil hub of Kag Island, which is in the north of the Persian Gulf, some way, of course, from the |
| 1:11.5 | Strait of Almuz, which is in the south, but seen as the strategic asset that potentially |
| 1:18.2 | is seizable and containable if he sent in boots in the ground because of its isolated |
| 1:25.7 | location as opposed to mainland Iran, though that's |
| 1:29.7 | the positive spin on potential action there. He said in this interview with the FT, to be honest, |
| 1:35.0 | my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran. And I think, you know, the key thing therefore |
| 1:41.1 | people are taking away from this is that's pointing very much towards |
| 1:44.4 | escalation, not the opposite, but as ever there's some conflicting messages. |
| 1:49.2 | There are such mixed messages, aren't there? Because he's been chatting to reporters on Air Force |
| 1:53.0 | 1 overnight. He reiterated that he believes that the US have already achieved regime change. |
| 1:59.5 | His argument is basically, we killed one regime, |
| 2:01.6 | they replaced it with another, we killed them as well. And now we're dealing with a whole |
| 2:05.6 | different group of people which he said, I would consider that regime change and frankly, they've |
| 2:10.6 | been very reasonable. And he went on to say that Iran was giving the US 20 big boats of oil |
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