{"id":68674,"date":"2026-03-11T02:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/why-irans-vital-kharg-island-oil-hub-is-still-untouched-by-us-israel-bombers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:01:45","slug":"why-irans-vital-kharg-island-oil-hub-is-still-untouched-by-us-israel-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/why-irans-vital-kharg-island-oil-hub-is-still-untouched-by-us-israel-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Iran\u2019s vital Kharg Island oil hub is still untouched by US-Israel bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some argue for destroying the terminal though which 90% of Iran\u2019s oil exports flow, others caution of a global market \u2018tailspin\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kharg Island \u2013 through which 90% of Iran\u2019s oil exports flow \u2013 is arguably the country\u2019s most sensitive economic target but the export terminal has so far remained untouched throughout the US-Israel bombing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say bombing or capturing the site with US forces would be likely to cause a sustained increase to already surging oil prices, as it would amount to taking the entirety of Iran\u2019s daily crude exports offline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/11\/why-irans-vital-kharg-island-oil-hub-is-still-untouched-by-us-israel-bombers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some argue for destroying the terminal though which 90% of Iran\u2019s oil exports flow, others caution of a global market \u2018tailspin\u2019 Kharg Island \u2013 through which 90% of Iran\u2019s oil exports flow \u2013 is arguably the country\u2019s most sensitive economic target but the export terminal has so far remained untouched throughout the US-Israel bombing &#8230; <a title=\"Why Iran\u2019s vital Kharg Island oil hub is still untouched by US-Israel bombers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/why-irans-vital-kharg-island-oil-hub-is-still-untouched-by-us-israel-bombers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Iran\u2019s vital Kharg Island oil hub is still untouched by US-Israel bombers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}