{"id":431958,"date":"2026-06-11T19:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/trump-says-iran-will-be-hit-hard-and-at-some-point-the-us-will-take-kharg-island\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:40:29","slug":"trump-says-iran-will-be-hit-hard-and-at-some-point-the-us-will-take-kharg-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-says-iran-will-be-hit-hard-and-at-some-point-the-us-will-take-kharg-island-431958\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran will be hit hard and &#8220;at some point&#8221; the US will take Kharg Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trump writes on Truth Social:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar,<br \/>\nAnti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its<br \/>\n offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in<br \/>\nthe not too distant  future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other<br \/>\noil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas<br \/>\n Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out<br \/>\nbrilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America. Thank<br \/>\nyou for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, Iran does not appear to be backing down despite endless threats from Trump. I can&#8217;t imagine the threat of expropriating Iran&#8217;s oil and gas is going to land well. Iran has promised to strike energy infrastructure in the region if attacked.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump you never know what&#8217;s bluster and what&#8217;s real but this is a poor start to the day, once again.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump writes on Truth Social: The 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,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}