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Donald Trump: “We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Apr. 1, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 25:07

If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it, and it would be gone and there's not a thing they could do about it. They have no anti aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. (25:07–25:19)

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Asserts that the U.S. has not targeted Iranian oil to allow for potential survival or rebuilding.

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