Trump threatens to obliterate Iran’s energy assets, Kharg Island; Australia fuel excise cut announced; Israel military operation expands in Lebanon
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has responded to Donald Trump’s threat to “completely destroy” Iran’s energy assets, including the major oil hub Kharg Island, and called for talks to resolve the dispute instead.
Trump claimed that if a ceasefire agreement is not reached in a short time and the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened, the United States could destroy its energy assets. Finance Times He said the US military had “a few thousand more targets to go to” and that “a deal could be made pretty quickly.”
Wong found that Trump had already achieved “many military objectives” against Iran and called for diplomacy that “will lead to de-escalation and resolution of this conflict.”
“I can’t speak for the president, but I certainly know that he and other US officials have made a lot of comments about flawed oil and energy markets. So no one is immune from this. This is the biggest shock to global energy markets since the 1970s,” Wong told ABC. News Breakfast.
“This is an unpredictable conflict. War is unpredictable. The question is, how can the United States navigate this conflict to an acceptable exit point for itself and the Iranians? And I think that’s what the United States is trying to do.”
Late last night, Trump shared on Truth Social that the United States is “in serious talks with a new, more reasonable regime to end our military operations in Iran.”
