Trump Claims U.S. Secretly Seized Millions of Barrels of Iranian Oil
June 11, 2026
Donald Trump has reignited controversy after claiming that the United States secretly takes millions of barrels of Iranian oil.
If the United States condemns other countries for violating international norms, what does it mean when an American president openly boasts about taking another nation’s resources?
For decades, Washington has imposed sanctions on Iran, threatened military action and lectured the world about international law.
Yet when an American president openly talks about taking another nation’s oil, it exposes a contradiction that much of the world has noticed for years.
Imagine the outrage if another country openly boasted about taking American resources.
Imagine the headlines.
Imagine the sanctions.
Imagine the calls for accountability.
But when it comes to the Middle East, the rules often seem different.
The people of the Middle East have paid for these policies with wars, sanctions, instability and generations of suffering.
And when politicians casually speak about another country’s resources as if they are theirs to take, they reveal a mindset that many thought the world had left behind.
Since when does taking another nation’s oil become something to boast about?
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English Script:
Journalist: Inflation had come down between now…
Trump: Oh, when the war is over? It’s coming down. It’s going to come down like a rock And again, we’re taking out millions, which I’m just announcing today for the first time, but we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Millions of barrels. Every night we took out oil. But now I’m going to tell you because they just figured it out. So now that they figured it out, I can tell you it was very hard for me. I wanted to say it so badly, but I didn’t want to ruin it, but it was very hard. Millions of barrels of oil has come out, and that’s why it’s at $85, $90 a barrel instead of $250. But we have the greatest military in the world, the toughest military in the world, just the best in every way. Nobody is even close. There’s no military that’s even close. I rebuilt it during my first term. I’m using it now. When this conflict is over, Todd said, ‘Please call it a conflict, right?’ As opposed to the word, he didn’t like that word war, but it’s sort of a conflict. It’s a military operation. When it’s over, you will see oil drop to where it was before. We’re getting gasoline. Just before it started, I was in Iowa and we passed gas stations, a $1.85 a gallon. And we’ll be back at those levels very soon.
