{"id":30322,"date":"2026-03-30T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30322"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:58:34","slug":"trump-eye-irans-oil-suggests-possible-takeover-of-kharg-island","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-eye-irans-oil-suggests-possible-takeover-of-kharg-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump eye Iran\u2019s oil, suggests possible takeover of Kharg Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">United States (US) President Donald Trump says he wants to take the oil in Iran and could seize Kharg Island, through which most Iranian oil is exported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was speaking to the media as thousands of US ground troops made their way to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The US, Israel war on Iran has sent oil prices surging by more than 50% in a month.<\/p>\n<p>It was at a staggering $115, 20 a barrel a short while ago.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Trump&#8217;s remarks follow his statement last Thursday, where he noted that Iran was permitting 10 oil tankers to transit the key global oil artery as a goodwill gesture amid ongoing negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, they&#8217;ve agreed to send eight boats two days ago, and then they added another two, so it was 10 boats. And now today, they gave us, as a tribute, I don&#8217;t know, I can&#8217;t define it exactly, but they gave us, I think out of a sign of respect, 20 boats of oil, big, big boats of oil, going through the Hormuz Strait. And that&#8217;s taking place starting tomorrow morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15849,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-30322","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Trump says he wants to take the oil in Iran","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30323,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30322\/revisions\/30323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}