US President Donald Trump claims that if Iran does not “get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode”.

“They have no place to store it. And because they have no place to store it, if they have to stop it, something happens underground that, essentially, renders it in very poor shape, and you never recover it fully,” he tells reporters in the Oval Office, claiming that Iran has “a matter of days before that event takes place”.

Asked about the possibility of oil prices reaching $200, Trump replies, “I think there’s nothing worse than a nuclear weapon that takes out one of your cities.”

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