WASHINGTON, June 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States will hit Iran "very hard tonight" and will soon take control of the country's oil and gas infrastructure, marking Thursday as the third consecutive day of U.S. strikes on Iran over the alleged downing of a U.S. Army helicopter.
"At 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," Trump said on his Truth Social.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said the bombing would be "bigger, more powerful."
Trump said taking Kharg Island has been his "preference," but he was not sure if the U.S. public had "the appetite" for the major military campaign to take the oil export hub. "I don't know that America has the stomach, I think they'd like to see us come home," he said.
The president claimed that Iran is "dying to make a deal" while he personally would "like to get a deal now, less than three or four weeks ago." ■
