"It looks like we could see a ground invasion of at least part of Iran this week. That, at least, was Donald Trump’s suggestion in a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times. ‘To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran,’ he told the paper. ‘But some stupid people back in the US say, “Why are you doing that?” But they’re stupid people.’
Such a move would almost certainly involve seizing Iran’s main oil export hub Kharg Island – which the US President didn’t rule out. ‘Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,’ he said. ‘It would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while. I don’t think they [Iran] have any defence. We could take it very easily.’
Such a move would almost certainly involve seizing Iran’s main oil export hub Kharg Island – which the US President didn’t rule out. ‘Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,’ he said. ‘It would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while. I don’t think they [Iran] have any defence. We could take it very easily.’

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