India, March 31 -- As tensions escalate in the ongoing war with Iran, Donald Trump on Monday (local time) shared a clip from a 1987 television interview, reviving his old remarks in which he argued for seizing Iranian oil assets as a response to attacks.

In the resurfaced clip, Trump criticised what he described as American weakness and suggested direct action against Iran's oil infrastructure. "Why couldn't we go in and take over some of their oil, which is along the sea?" he can be heard saying in the clip.

The video dates back to a December 1987, from ABC's segment 20/20, where a 41-year-old Trump spoke to journalist Barbara Walters about US strategy in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War era. At the time, Iran was targeting oi...