Trump says he could 'take the oil in Iran'

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Fuel speculation, US forces could soon be deployed on the ground.

The Iranian capital is hit by another series of Israeli airstrikes

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Donald Trump has been accused by critics of not having a clear objective

for his war in Iran.

But in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper,

the president of the United States has stated a very clear goal to quote,

take the oil in Iran.

He also suggested he could seize Iran's Khag Island

through which most Iranian oil is exported.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Mr. Trump said that

Tehran was desperate to make a deal

and that the Iranian regime had already been toppled.

We'll make a deal with them.

Pretty sure.

But it's possible we won't.

But we've had regime change.

You look already because the one regime was decimated, destroyed,

the world debt.

The next regime is mostly dead.

And the third regime would deal with different people

than anybody's dealt with before.

It's a whole different group of people.

So I would consider that regime change.

And frankly, they've been very reasonable.

So I think we've had regime change.

We can't do much better than that.

The price of oil has soared yet again to around $116 a barrel

after threats by the Iranian-backed Houthis

to target ships in the Bab al-Mandeb straight off the coast of Yemen.

In Asia, Japan's Nikkei and South Korea's Kaspi

have plunged by around 4 percent.

Our business correspondent, Nick Marsh, who's in Singapore,

is following developments since Mr. Trump's latest remarks.

He's been clear for now.

Alex, don't forget, these objectives can change

and they often do change from day to day.

For example, taking car guidelines, he said,

we might do that, we might not.

I think it's part of a broad range of possibilities.

President Trump's obviously made a lot of assertions

during the course of this war about what the United States would do

or what it could do.

Many of them haven't materialized,

but very often they do influence oil prices, at least momentarily.

And as you said, the price of oil has got very high.

I think markets have looked at the escalation

of the involvement of the Houthis over the weekend,

talk of some kind of ground offensive or the possibility of that

and they're seeing that the flows of energy

will be disrupted quite heavily for quite a sustained period.

And what's interesting is Donald Trump spoke

about taking the oil, that might be a legitimate aim,

but he drew the comparison with Venezuela.

And around a Venezuela, two very, very different places,

things were quite straightforward.

And Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro was removed.

And the US began the process of trying to take over

that oil industry at the moment.

They know we're near that.

And huge economic consequences

if the oil price keeps going up

as some commentators are forecasting.

Yeah, I mean, we're already seeing them.

Just heard about Australia with an emergency package

to try and ease cost of living.

All across Asia, governments are bringing in measures.

The Philippines declared a national energy emergency.

You know, fuel shortages are starting to bite.

The price of gas and oil is really starting

to influence the cost of living.

It's having an impact on fertilizers

that price of food, so on and so forth.

And countries all around the world are starting

to scramble around looking at their supply chains.

Where do we get our oil from?

What price are we going to be paying for it?

Do we look at Russian oil?

Unsanctioned?

Temporarily by the United States.

That might be entering the market.

So countries are very much already feeling this shock.

And as we keep saying, the longer it goes on,

and the longer that the straight of hormones

is in Iranian hands, and there is a blockage there.

And that there's potential for hits to energy infrastructure

than the longer the price of oil and gas will remain high

and all the corresponding effects that will have on.

Markets, but also the lives of ordinary people.

Nick Marsh in Singapore.

Before Mr Trump's interview with the Financial Times,

the Speaker ever runs Parliament accused the US

of secretly plotting a ground invasion,

despite talking about diplomatic efforts

and peace talks in Pakistan to end the war.

Mohamed Bakar Kalabaf said that Iranian troops

were waiting for American soldiers to attack,

so they can rein fire on them.

US Central Command has confirmed that the warship USS Tripoli

has arrived in the region with around three

and a half thousand military personnel on board.

I asked our international editor Jeremy Bowen

if American boots on the ground was a possibility.

It's looking more likely because the sending troops there.

And of course, that can be just prudent.

It can be a way of giving President Trump options.

But if you look at the other possibilities that he has,

he has a few choices, but none of them are good choices.

What he's saying he can get is some kind of a deal

with the regime and the leaked version of Trump's 15 point plan.

It reads like a surrender document in terms of pretty much

everything that Israel and the US has ever asked of Iran is in there.

Iran has countered publicly by making demands of its own

about its continued sovereignty effectively over

the straightforward moves about reparations,

about US bases being removed from the Middle East.

I mean, that's not going to happen either.

So unless they find a way of jumping into the middle ground somehow,

then what are his choices?

Well, Trump can say, we won.

We smashed them.

We're going to go home.

The military industrial complex is broken.

Their stores have gone.

They're not a threat anymore.

I don't think anyone, particularly in the Gulf States,

is going to find that convincing.

Or some of his people home is not going to find that convincing.

So the other alternative is basically digging deeper into this war

by deploying those ground troops, maybe trying to put pressure on the regime

by taking the very strategic island where they have their main oil export

terminal, Carg Island, in the north of the Gulf.

There are other small islands disputed with the UAE

closer to the entrance to the Gulf, the strait of all moves.

And so he could do that.

Well, these troops are coming are really capable troops.

But the Iranians, I would imagine, have made some preparations,

have some surprises ready.

Plus, they have to hang onto this territory,

and they have to try and use it as a way,

strategically, politically, to change the behavior of the Iranian regime.

And, tactically, they can take the territory, I'm sure of that.

It might be painful for them to hang onto it.

But how strategically does this get them closer to where they want to be?

In terms of changing the regime, or at least changing the way it behaves?

Presumably, it would stop them exporting pretty much any oil.

Yes, Iran wouldn't be able to export oil.

But if Iran still controls the strait of all moves,

neither would from those Gulf ports,

anyway, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait,

they're not going to be happy about that.

Neither is the world economy.

Then if you switch over across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea,

you get to the Houthis who have fired barrage as missiles at the Israelis.

They have not yet hit shipping as they did during the Gaza war, but they might.

So there is a scenario where America may take some Iranian territory,

fight to hold it.

Iran can still threaten shipping in the strait of all moves,

and they don't need to do a great deal to do that.

They'd have to destroy everything, just fire something occasionally at one or two ships.

And then on the other side, potentially, this is worst-case scenario world,

the Houthis closed the Bab al-Mandab straight at the bottom of the Red Sea.

And that means that when the main trade routes in world shipping for really important stuff,

semiconductors, cars, you name it, coming from Asia,

up through the Red Sea, through Suez to Europe and onto America.

If Hormuz's cut, Bab al-Mandab's also cut.

That is serious global economic repercussions of the war, which we will all feel.

Is this where Donald Trump thought he'd be at this stage in the war?

Well, we don't know quite what's going on in his mind,

but no, I wouldn't have thought so.

I mean, he said himself that he thought it would be over quickly.

And the analysis is, essentially, that he was expecting a repeat of Venezuela

where, in a couple of hours, they kidnapped the president and his wife.

The rest of the regime came around, it's now doing as it's told,

allows the Americans to effectively control their oil sales and take a good cut for themselves.

Well, Iran is a completely different cup of tea,

in terms of ideology, in terms of the depth and breadth of the regime,

the way that it's not based on individuals, it's based on institutions.

It's a terrible regime kills its own people,

but those institutions are still functioning,

and they're still managing five weeks in, despite a massive onslaught

by the Americans and the Israelis to fight back.

Pakistan is offering to mediate.

Is a diplomatic solution even possible now?

Well, the diplomatic solution is always possible if people

on either side are prepared to make a deal,

but the tone of remarks coming in the last four or five days,

for example, from the White House press secretary,

basically echoing things Donald Trump has said.

She said, these guys, Iranians, they need to realize they're beaten.

They need to accept that and do as they're told.

The point is, being beaten in war is not a choice.

You don't choose to accept that you're beaten.

You're either beaten in a war or you're still fighting,

which means you're not beaten.

So the Iranian regime is still fighting,

or go, it is not beaten.

Whatever they hope and expect and say in the White House.

Jeremy Bowen.

Tehran faces intense bombing and power cuts as the US is ready war

on Iran enters its fifth week.

In the 24 hours up until Sunday evening,

the Israeli military said that it had launched more than 140

air strikes in central and western Iran.

Iran's government says energy infrastructure has been damaged,

although there are also reports that power has been restored

to most parts of the capital.

Iranians have used social media to share their hopes and fears

as the war drags into a second month of fighting.

Their comments have been read by our colleagues at BBC Persian.

Last night, they hid the middle of the street near our house with no specific target,

no building, no person, nothing, just the middle of the street.

The alley next to us was attacked, exactly where my mother lives.

I tried to call over and over again.

By the time I reached them and until I saw they were okay,

I think I died a hundred times over again.

The rate of almost and the Iranian islands are in danger of being lost,

just because we are in conflict doesn't mean we should let Iran's land and see borders be destroyed.

Gonshay Habibiazad reports for BBC Persian and she has been in contact with people in Iran.

First, what's happening there?

The latest that I have is that some parts of Tehran and it's nearby city Karach

went dark tonight after electricity outage for wearing strikes.

Israeli defence forces have confirmed that they were attacking Tehran.

Iran's Ministry of Energy has said that the attacks on power infrastructure in Tehran

province has disrupted electricity, but they have also said and I've heard from sources

that the power is now coming back.

In other attacks in Iran, we have that University Central Iran,

Isfahan has been hit again, according to reports by Iranian outlets and Iran had threatened to attack

American and Israeli universities in the region in response.

If the US won't condemn the strikes by Tuesday, as I said,

and we'll have other reports of the strikes on Iran on northern provinces as well,

but we also have the strikes by Iran on different countries.

They have said that they have targeted Israel, Saudi Arabia,

the UAE, Bahrain and Iraqi Kurdistan, and they have claimed that the operation was in retaliation

for strikes on two major Iranian steel complexes two days ago.

And what I'm hearing, some, they're very much their anti-establishment,

but they're really divided over their opinions.

Some of them are still supporting the strikes.

Some of them just want the war to end, even if it means that the establishment stays in power,

a deal happens, anything.

They're just tired and fed up.

Well, polls suggest a majority of the American people are against the military campaign

in Iran. Republicans, however, have largely stuck by President Trump,

but with the conflict entering its second month, will that backing remain steadfast?

Chief North America correspondent Gary Adonahu

has been to Alabama in the deep south of the US to speak to some of Mr Trump's

make America great again, or MAGA supporters.

Tim Pierce is on his tractor, spraying the peach trees on his farm in Clinton,

Alabama. Clouds of water fan out behind him as he moves through the 1200 trees on land his

family has farmed for almost a hundred years.

This is a peach tree right here, but all is not well.

This year he's lost almost 50% of his crop because of a few days of sub-zero temperatures two

weeks ago. On top of the crop failure, diesel prices for Tim are 50% up since the beginning of the

war. Tim can pass on some of these extra costs, but consumers won't pay over the odds.

You'd think this might shake his support for the president, but no.

If it's just going to cost me a little bit of fuel prices, the reward is greater than the expense.

So we're getting the war done?

Yeah, getting done and not having to worry about the fact that Iran might have a nuclear

missile they can send over this way. I don't like war, but sometimes it's not preventable.

70 miles west in Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama,

the college baseball team has just hit a home run against their arch rival, Olburn.

Outside in the Car Park, Brian Banks and Ben Platner have set up a table.

Lots of beer, chicken wings and delicious jalapeno peppers wrapped in cheese and bacon.

Their support for the war is strong, but you can hear them wrestling with concerns.

I think it's a little touch and go. I'm not disagreeing with what's going on

because I think it need to be done the last 47 years.

The way Trump has been handling his business, I would have thought he would already

handle it, but this is a lot bigger than we know about.

How would you feel about US boys on the ground down there?

Yeah, I didn't want to see that.

It's whatever it takes to get that regime, once you start out, there is no going back.

Alabama is also the heart of America's so-called Bible Belt.

Strong evangelical Christian faith here is central to most people's lives,

and backing for this president and his support for conservative values is solid.

We pray for our leaders of this nation.

These 7th-day Adventists follow the 10 Commandments closely,

and in particular the 6th thou shalt not kill.

So what does the congregation make of this war?

Samuel Thomas Tuneer is their pastor.

I think that people believe that Iran is a threat, and as such they believe that as a threat

it needs to be addressed.

These Adventists are not pacifists, but most will only take on non-competent roles in the

military. To that degree their natural support for Donald Trump is more qualified than other Christians.

A view reflected by one member of the congregation, Gabriela Ibanezcu.

I don't see any word justifiable and sending people to die unless they choose to die for the

cause, but that's the nature of war.

Donald Trump and his Secretary of Defense have often framed this war in religious language,

a noble and righteous fight, they say, no mercy for the enemy.

That makes some here uncomfortable, and the support of people in churches like this

cannot wholly be taken for granted, says Pastor Thomas.

If we look at history once again, there was support for Vietnam, and then it turned.

There was support for Iraq, and it doesn't storm, and it shifted.

And so the reality is people can be quite fickle.

For some evangelical Christians, this war against Iran is about supporting Israel.

For others, it's more a simple test of loyalty to a president they believe has returned conservative

values to the center of American life. Like the rest of the megabase, they will go a long way

to keep the faith with Donald Trump, but their loyalty is not limitless.

That report by Gary O'Donohue in Alabama.

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Later this week, if NASA's launch schedule goes to plan four astronauts will be heading to the moon.

So far, the US Space Agency's Artemis program is estimated to have cost $93 billion.

So why is America spending so much time, effort, and money racing to return to the moon?

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Five, four, three, two, one, zero, liftoff, we have a liftoff.

We choose to go to the moon and this decay and do the other things.

Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

The words of US President John F. Kennedy setting America on course to the moon.

In 1969, the Apollo program made history with the fast lunar landing.

And astronauts continued to go to the moon until 1972.

Now, after more than 50 years, NASA is heading back.

But why is the US so intent on returning?

So that little black rock you can see there is a piece of the moon that was collected by

Apollo astronauts and brought back to Earth in 1972.

Professor Sarah Russell is a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum in London,

where the precious piece of lunar material is on display.

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Today, it's China who's the competition.

China's made fast progress with its space program and it plans to get humans to the moon by 2030.

Both countries want the best lunar real estate with the most abundant resources.

I think the real driver right now is that geopolitical incentive to be the first major power

that gets to the South Pole.

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the moon. So although you can't own a piece of the land because of the UN outer space treaty,

you can basically operate on that line without anybody interfering with it.

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Libby Jackson is the head of space at the Science Museum.

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Libby Jackson ending that report by Rebecca Morrell.

Now to some good news.

Forty species have been given international protected status during a vote on Sunday

at a United Nations Wildlife Summit in Brazil.

Here's the sound of some of them.

That was the snowy owl, giant otter and a Hudsonian godwit.

The move comes in the wake of a recent UN report which revealed that almost half the world's

migratory species are in decline.

Wildlife experts say the new listing means states will be expected to strengthen legal protections.

Dr. Sue Lieberman is the Wildlife Conservation Society's vice president for international policy

and is at the summit in Brazil.

Rebecca Kesby asked why the numbers were in decline.

There are a large number of migratory species,

duty human factors such as habitat loss,

over exploitation, illegal trade.

These species are declining but for migratory species, no one country can solve the problems.

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appendix two means they've agreed they will collaborate with other countries.

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across much of Africa and Asia. So what this means is governments are now committed,

not just to talk about it, but to take action. The hammerhead sharks are now fully protected.

Understood, but I mean if so much of the problem is climate change, how realistic is it that

governments locally are going to be able to have a major impact?

There are a lot of threats that are not climate change, over exploitation, illegal trade,

taking animals out of the wild. That's not climate change. We can do something about that.

For example, with the striped taiana, there's a lot of killing and human conflict.

We can take action. It's not only climate change. Of course, we need to combat climate change,

but there are a lot of other threats to species for sharks overfishing isn't about climate change.

It's up to each of the 133 countries that are members of this convention to make it a reality.

And those of us like the Wildlife Conservation Society, when we go home, we work with governments

to make sure it does happen. And one of the key issues isn't only about enforcement,

it's funding. So we hope that donors and private individuals who care about wildlife will now

fund action for these species. Dr. Sue Lieberman speaking to Rebecca Kesby.

Some football news, the English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur have

parted ways with another manager. Igor Tudor left the club by mutual consent. He was in

charges interim head coach for only 44 days and seven matches. The 47-year-old leaves the London

club just one point above the relegation zone, more details from Jane Dugel.

The former eventist managers had a positive impact at previous clubs in short-term appointments,

turning them around quickly. So it was hoped that he would be able to help move Spurs away

from relegation, but he only took one point from five matches, so they've actually slipped

closer to the bottom three under him. Spurs haven't been relegated since 1977 from the top flight,

so Tottenham fans just see this as being unthinkable, but it is a real possibility. Seven games are

remaining. So now the question is, who will replace Tudor? Several names are in the frame.

Former Burnley and Forrest Managers Sean Dynch's name has been linked, although he said he

hasn't been in talks with them. Former Spurs managers, Maurizio Puccettino and 79-year-old Harry Rednab

have also been mentioned. Also former player Ryan Mason to name a few, but for now assistant coach

Bruno Sal Tor will take training. The clubs say that they will have a new head coach in place

for when the players return from international duty. They have approximately 10 days to prepare

for their next Premier League match, which is Sunderland away, but for now Egor Tudor has been

dismissed. Jane Dougall. Like many close neighbours with a combative history, the French and the

English still enjoy a light hearted rivalry tingeed with mild mutual disdain. So this next news

may chill the blood of some French women and men. A woman, born to British parents, has become the

first British mayor in France. Maureen Searle's grew up in the UK, but she's lived in France for

25 years and has now been elected as the mayor in Mont Saint-Éloy near Lille. And as she told Padioconyl

rather than play down her Britishness, she's doing the opposite. This is really the climax of hard

work for many years, but the last six months have been really intense. I haven't grown up here,

so of course it's not my country, so I was walking on ice all the time, but now I feel that this

famous ice is now gone. So here I am seated in my office, and I need a lot of work, but I think I'm

going to need two terms. It won't be enough in one. You are power hungry now Maureen, if you'd

start suddenly it's two terms. Well, it's not power hungry, it's to do for the village. So much

needs to be done. This morning is a simple example. This is all, it's all a little

marry, and it's also a post office, tiny village post office. And there was this mother that came

in with a little boy, and I said, Bogeau Madame, normal, and I looked at a little boy and I said,

oh, hello, what's your name? And he was just astonished because I spoke English, and I said to the

lady, oh, didn't you know, from now on we address all children in English. And she sort of said,

well, this is brilliant. I'm so happy I voted for you. And it was a joke, but she took it quite

serious, and she was absolutely delighted with this idea. Should you say there'll be mandatory

high tea in the town hall? Well, we're trying already. I have brought at Christmas, I've tried the

mince pies and things like that, and you should see the faces of people. What's in here? What's that?

You know, and slowly been anglicizing the Mary, and we're now going to have a Burns night as well.

I'm planning to have an English breakfast for the children at school just so they see what we're

having baked beans in breakfast. It's not croissant, no, we're having baked beans. Why? So all that is

it's not because I'm trying to impose British rules here. It's just because I'm trying to open

the mind of a little village, which used to its little routines, its little frames, always the same.

Just brought a right here. And in a lively, happy way, I must admit, I import my sausages from

Ireland, and I do have an English breakfast that that won't change. Yes, I'm voting for you.

I'm voting for you. Tell us what we can learn from Monsat Elois. What should we be doing

from your village in return? When I arrived here, my husband and myself, we liked the fact it was

a little village, little cozy little village, very French, easy going. We were very quickly

accepted. There was a lot of space, which I miss in the UK, but it's also this easy life. Come

along, join in. It's less rigid in its ways. Maureen sells a mare in France.

And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at

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and beyond the headlines on one big story. This edition of The Global News podcast was mixed by

Salotta Hadroy Tuzimska, and the producer was Daniel Mann. The editor is Karen Martin.

I'm Alex Ritsson, until next time. Goodbye.

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