The US administration has deployed US Marines to the Middle East as the US-Israel war on Iran stretches into its fifth week, and has also been planning to send thousands of soldiers from the army’s 82nd Airborne to the region. Recently, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said about 3,500 additional soldiers arrived in the Middle East on board the USS Tripoli.
President Donald Trump has said he wants to “take the oil in Iran” by seizing its export hub of “Kharg Island”, a plan being opposed in the US by “some stupid people”. While talking to a newspaper, Trump said his plans for Iran differed from those for Venezuela, where Washington intends to control the oil industry “indefinitely” following the abduction of its leader, Nicolas Maduro, in January. To be honest, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say, ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” Trump told the British newspaper. “Maybe we take ‘Kharg Island’, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,” he added.
