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Trump's Shocking 1987 Take On Iran Oil Resurfaces As Ongoing War Escalates— 'Grab It And Keep It'

Trump revived a 1987 Barbara Walters interview and repeated his call to seize Iranian oil assets as crude prices jumped 40% this month, officials said.

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President Donald Trump has brought a decades-old interview back into the limelight, where he proposed that the U.S. should take control of Iranian oil facilities if attacked. Trump, on Monday, took to his Truth Social to share a snippet from a 1987 interview he had with the late Barbara Walters. The original interview, aired on ABC’s 20/20, features a young Trump criticizing what he perceived as American weakness and advocating for a strong resp…
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The attack launched by the US and Israel against Iran on 28 February might have seemed to be a shock at first sight, but the thinking process behind it has developed over ten years. In an interview in 1987, which has recently appeared and became viral, Donald Trump may have been asked why US can't just go and take Iran's oil. Exactly at the same time (Trump was 51 years old) Trump said he will be in a United States presidential day.

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In an interview with Barbara Walters in 1987, the 41-year-old future president of the United States criticized US foreign policy and explained how Washington should take care of Tehran.

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US President Donald Trump's grudge against Iran is a long-standing one. Amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, a 1987 interview with Trump has surfaced. Let us reveal what he has to say about Iran.

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