{"id":327898,"date":"2026-06-12T07:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327898"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:50:20","slug":"trump-says-us-will-be-taking-irans-kharg-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327898","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says US Will Be \u2018Taking\u2019 Iran\u2019s Kharg Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave DeCamp \u2013 AntiWar.com June 11, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

President Trump on Thursday threatened Iran with a third straight night of bombing and said that the US would eventually be \u201ctaking\u201d Iran\u2019s Kharg Island, an island deep in the Persian Gulf that serves as a major oil export hub.<\/p>\n

\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 the president wrote on Truth Social.<\/a><\/p>\n

\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, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n

During the full-scale US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran from February 28 to April 8, the US positioned Marines and US Army paratroopers in the region for potential ground operations to target Iranian islands and the country\u2019s coast. A report from independent journalist Ken Klippenstein recently revealed<\/a> that some members of the US Army\u2019s 82nd Airborne were deployed to Israel.<\/p>\n

Klippenstein cited a military source who told him that the deployment to Israel was part of a US-Israeli joint contingency plan completed since February to seize Kharg Island and carve out coastal territory inside Iran.<\/p>\n

Later on Thursday, Trump told Fox News<\/a> that his \u201cpreference\u201d would be to take Kharg Island but that he doesn\u2019t know if \u201cAmerica would have the stomach for it.\u201d Any US ground operation to take the island would almost certainly result in major US casualties since the invading troops would face significant drone and missile attacks.<\/p>\n

Trump again compared the potential operation to take over Iranian oil infrastructure to his attack on Venezuela to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Since then, the US has taken control of Venezuela\u2019s oil exports, though the US war with Iran is much different since the US has faced much stiffer resistance, and the entire country is mobilized for war.<\/p>\n

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With outright lies and the assistance of a compliant media, the Trump administration has been able to minimize the public\u2019s awareness of the scale of U.S. casualties in its war with Iran. That could change if Trump orders the seizure of Kharg Island <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":325430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327898\/revisions\/327899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}