{"id":7211,"date":"2026-06-11T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-says-us-will-be-taking-kharg-island-in-latest-iran-war-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:35:19","slug":"trump-says-us-will-be-taking-kharg-island-in-latest-iran-war-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-says-us-will-be-taking-kharg-island-in-latest-iran-war-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will \u2018be taking\u2019 Kharg Island in latest Iran war threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>United States President Donald Trump has said the US will be hitting Iran \u201cvery hard tonight\u201d, adding the military will be \u201ctaking Kharg Island\u201d and other Iranian \u201coil infrastructure points in the not too distant future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The threats, made in a Truth Social post on Thursday, come after the US and Iran traded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/6\/11\/iran-war-live-us-launches-attacks-on-multiple-iranian-targets\">two days of strikes<\/a>, threatening to derail ongoing negotiations for a lasting ceasefire.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/11\/iran-announces-closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-following-us-strikes\">Iran announces closure of Strait of Hormuz following US strikes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/11\/us-releases-video-of-warship-firing-missiles-in-strikes-on-iran\">US releases video of warship firing missiles in strikes on Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/11\/did-us-sneak-100-million-barrels-of-oil-out-of-hormuz-as-trump-claims\">Did US sneak 100 million barrels of oil out of Hormuz, as Trump claims?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>While the statements indicate US willingness to return to a full-scale war, Trump has repeatedly alternated between bellicose threats and diplomatic overtures in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For example, he pledged that \u201ca whole civilisation will die\u201d just hours before a pause in fighting was agreed to, beginning on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Trump wrote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 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,\u201d Trump wrote, before referencing the US military action against Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>That included the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Maduro\u2019s replacement, Delcy Rodriguez, has overseen an opening of the country\u2019s state-controlled oil industry to foreign investors, under heavy US pressure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/3\/11\/the-orphan-pearl-inside-kharg-the-beating-heart-of-irans-oil-empire\">Kharg Island<\/a>, known as the \u201cForbidden Island\u201d due to its strict military control, processes 90 percent of Iran\u2019s crude exports.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent interview with Fox News, Trump said taking Kharg Island has always been his \u201cpreference\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that America has the stomach for it, to be honest,\u201d he added, saying he was still averse to deploying boots on the ground in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s statements came shortly after Iran\u2019s foreign ministry said the latest round of US strikes rendered the ongoing pause in fighting \u201cpractically meaningless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Iran\u2019s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote in a post on X that \u201cwrong strategies and impulsive decisions will reset the entire board for the worse, explode energy infrastructure and markets and create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in for years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recent US strikes have targeted the port city of Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, and the southern towns of Sirik, Minab and Karaj west of Tehran, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, meanwhile, has attacked US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. Trump has also accused Iran of downing a US helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the latest round of US strikes, Iran announced the full closure of the strait, the arterial waterway that has emerged as Tehran\u2019s key point of leverage in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>US officials have for weeks been signalling that a deal is close, but have offered few specifics on impasses over the future of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, future control of the Strait of Hormuz, or the release of frozen Iranian funds.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have said the Trump administration is constrained by the political imperative of reaching a deal with better terms than the 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/21\/what-was-the-iran-nuclear-deal-trump-dumped-in-search-of-better-terms\">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)<\/a>, which saw Tehran curtail its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.<\/p>\n<p>Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and has, since taking office last year, twice struck Iran amid ongoing talks on its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed that any damage Iran \u201cinflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted\u201d from Iran\u2019s frozen assets, which are estimated to total about $100bn globally.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera\u2019s Kimberly Halkett said Trump appears to be using military pressure and inflammatory language to try to push Iran towards a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what\u2019s clear is that the US president is continuing with this Truth Social post to mix public threats with what he believes is still possible, and that is diplomacy at the barrel of a gun,\u201d Halkett said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Al Jazeera, Abas Aslani, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Middle East Strategic Studies, said the Trump administration \u201cwants to escalate in order to create leverage at the negotiating table to pressure Tehran to make concessions that they did not in the past\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran, meanwhile, is concerned with \u201crestoring deterrence against additional attacks on the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for Iran, this is also important because the previous response to the US attack was not enough to ensure that they will not attack Iran again,\u201d Aslani said. \u201cThat is why they might be escalating to de-escalate [the situation].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, US CENTCOM also announced that the military had disabled three oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman amid its ongoing blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p>India has called on the US to cease attacks on Thursday, saying three Indian crew members were killed in one US strike on a vessel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump has said the US will be hitting Iran \u201cvery hard tonight\u201d, adding the military will be \u201ctaking Kharg Island\u201d and other Iranian \u201coil infrastructure points in the not too distant future\u201d. 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