President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. had carried out a bombing raid on Iran\u2019s Kharg Island, a strategically important island in the Persian Gulf that serves as one of the country\u2019s main oil export hubs.<\/p>\n
Located off Iran\u2019s southern coast, Kharg Island is home to major oil terminals that have long been central to Iran\u2019s energy trade and economic lifeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because so much of the country\u2019s crude oil exports pass through the island, it is widely viewed as one of Iran\u2019s most sensitive and strategically important pieces of infrastructure.<\/p>\n
“Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran\u2019s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Our Weapons are the most powerful and sophisticated that the World has ever known but, for reasons of decency, I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. had carried out a bombing raid on Iran\u2019s Kharg Island, a strategically important island in the Persian Gulf that serves as one of the country\u2019s main oil export hubs. Located off Iran\u2019s southern coast, Kharg Island is home to major oil terminals that have long been central … 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-68926","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\/68926","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=68926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}