Iran’s key oil export hub, Kharg Island, has reportedly been targeted by multiple strikes, according to Iranian media outlet Mehr News.
Iran’s Kharg Island hosts the country’s main crude export terminal and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of its oil shipments to the world, about 30 kilometres south of the mainland in the north of the Gulf.
Earlier on March 13, US President Donald Trump had said that American forces had “totally obliterated” all military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, describing it in a social media post as “one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East.” He said he had chosen not to “wipe out” oil infrastructure on the Iranian island, for now.
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