President Donald Trump on Sunday said that Iran has mere days before its oil infrastructure could explode.
“What happens is that line explodes from within. Both mechanically and in the earth, something happens where it just explodes, and they say they only have about three days left before that happens,” he said during an appearance on Fox News’s The Sunday Briefing. “And when it explodes, you can never rebuild it the way it is.”
The lines could explode because of mechanical problems exacerbated by Trump’s blockade of Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Trump. The president suggested that if Iran is unable to continue exporting oil, the pipelines will eventually fail. His words come as some experts have warned that by Sunday, Iran could run out of storage space for the oil it is producing and cannot export due to the blockade.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier this month that “in a
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