{"id":43343,"date":"2026-03-30T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/43343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:49:08","slug":"trump-threatens-to-obliterate-irans-energy-sources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/43343\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to \u2018obliterate\u2019 Iran\u2019s energy sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(AP\/Gray News) \u2013 U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-march-30-2026-8abb0ee50be4cd8dd9ddde3a9d846ef8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatened widespread destruction<\/a> of Iran\u2019s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, including desalination plants, if a deal to end the war with Tehran is not reached \u201cshortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitehouse\/status\/2038587478924222607?s=46&amp;t=_32V8HUvf0tzNUqmK73jcA\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trump said in the post<\/a> that the United States may blow up and completely obliterate Iran\u2019s electric plants and oil wells if a deal to end the war is not reached and the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The war has already threatened <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-war-global-economy-oil-1bcb0c616c5ca2e1b6a903c2cd64a4e4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">global supplies of oil and natural gas<\/a>, sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-fertilizer-exports-farming-3b7c92d58dba0817c3aa8f1db47464b7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fertilizer shortages<\/a> and disrupted air travel. Iran\u2019s grip on the strategic <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/strait-of-hormuz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> has shaken markets and prices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Israeli security forces work at the site of an Iranian missile strike, in Beersheba, southern...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774892948_85_Z5Z52RPTDZFRRCO2BLLT6UHW2Y.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Israeli security forces work at the site of an Iranian missile strike, in Beersheba, southern Israel Sunday, March 29, 2026.(Maya Levin | AP Photo\/Maya Levin)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116317880658472708\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest threat<\/a> also mentions Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-islands-strait-hormuz-oil-trump-1b3e770e61c6a05d3e078223e15b20b2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kharg Island<\/a> oil export hub, which he suggested U.S. troops could seize in an interview with the Financial Times published early Monday. Iran has threatened to mine the Persian Gulf if its territory is invaded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The United States and Israel kept up their attacks Monday while Iran struck a key water and electrical plant in Kuwait, part of its ongoing campaign targeting the Gulf Arab states, and an oil refinery in Israel came under fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Israel has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-lebanon-invasion-attack-war-ap-style-2e22f39ce455f859483463550c0725f0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invaded southern Lebanon<\/a> to expel the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets and drones across the border, in what Israeli leaders suggest could be <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-war-incursion-416347699f12430c471f3f26b07821cf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another extended occupation<\/a> of that country. The invasion, along with aerial bombardment of wide swathes of the country, have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/photo-gallery\/lebanon-shelter-hezbollah-israel-war-487792d7f62cfc2c5d9d20a2fd62fea1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">displaced more than a million Lebanese people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Gray News contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP\/Gray News) \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran\u2019s energy resources and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,18276,18277,18278,34,1372,101,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-43343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-end-the-war","10":"tag-energy-systems","11":"tag-global-supplies","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-president","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","15":"tag-war-in-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116319391843983984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}