
The US president continues to put pressure on the Iranian regime to reach an agreement: President Donald Trump threatened today (Thursday) that his country would attack Iran tonight "with great force." He said that in the not-too-distant future, the Americans would take control of Iran's "oil island" and other oil infrastructure.
The president wrote in a post he published: "The United States will strike Iran (whose navy, air force, radar, anti-aircraft systems, and all other forms of defense, along with most of its offensive capability, have been eliminated!), very hard tonight.".
The president added: "At some point in the not-so-distant future, we will take over Kharj Island and other oil infrastructure points, and gain complete control over their oil and gas markets, similar to what we did with Venezuela, which works brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America.".
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said: "There will be more bombs tonight. It will be bigger and more powerful." He said that Iran currently has no air defense systems, "but they might get lucky with a few shoulder-fired missiles.".
""We can go in there tomorrow," he added, "I don't want to do that, but we can put a small group of soldiers there and take over the whole place.".
Regarding the possibility that the Americans would attack power plants in Iran, Trump said that he "prefers not to do it" - and reasoned: "The moment you do it, people suffer, the people won't be able to drink water.".