{"id":575038,"date":"2026-03-30T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:25:10","slug":"trump-threatens-to-obliterate-irans-energy-assets-kharg-island-australia-fuel-excise-cut-announced-israel-military-operation-expands-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575038\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to obliterate Iran\u2019s energy assets, Kharg Island; Australia fuel excise cut announced; Israel military operation expands in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has responded to Donald Trump\u2019s threats to \u201ccompletely obliterate\u201d Iranian energy assets, including the major oil hub Kharg Island, calling instead for talks to resolve the conflict.<\/p>\n

Trump suggested the US could destroy the energy assets if a ceasefire agreement wasn\u2019t reached soon and the Strait of Hormuz wasn\u2019t reopened, after claiming in the Financial Times that the US military had \u201canother couple of thousand targets to go\u201d and that \u201ca deal could be made fairly quickly\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One.AP<\/p>\n

Wong found Trump had already achieved \u201ca lot of military objectives\u201d against Iran, and called for diplomacy to \u201clead to de-escalation and the resolution of this conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t speak for the president, but I certainly know that he has made many comments and as have other US officials about the imperfect oil and energy markets. I mean, no one is immune. This is the largest shock on global energy markets since the 1970s,\u201d Wong told ABC\u2019s News Breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an unpredictable conflict. War is unpredictable. The question is, how does the US navigate a landing point out of this conflict that is acceptable to it and to the Iranians? And I think that is what the US is seeking to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump posted on Truth Social late last night that the US was in \u201cserious discussions with a new, and more reasonable, regime to end our military operations in Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Penny Wong has responded to Donald Trump\u2019s threats to \u201ccompletely obliterate\u201d Iranian energy assets, including the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-575038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}