{"id":69054,"date":"2026-03-16T07:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/us-jet-fighters-target-irans-kharg-island-oil-hub\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:28","slug":"us-jet-fighters-target-irans-kharg-island-oil-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/us-jet-fighters-target-irans-kharg-island-oil-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"US Jet Fighters Target Iran\u2019s Kharg Island Oil Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran launched new attacks on Monday striking a fuel depot at Dubai\u2019s airport and unleashing cluster bombs on Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said it destroyed Kharg Island\u2019s defenses, just off the Iranian coast, which produces 90% of Iran\u2019s oil. President Donald Trump said he could go further and target the oil facilities themselves. NBC\u2019s Richard Engel reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran launched new attacks on Monday striking a fuel depot at Dubai\u2019s airport and unleashing cluster bombs on Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said it destroyed Kharg Island\u2019s defenses, just off the Iranian coast, which produces 90% of Iran\u2019s oil. President Donald Trump said he could go further and target the oil facilities themselves. NBC\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"US Jet Fighters Target Iran\u2019s Kharg Island Oil Hub\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/us-jet-fighters-target-irans-kharg-island-oil-hub\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Jet Fighters Target Iran\u2019s Kharg Island Oil Hub\">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-69054","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\/69054","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=69054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}