United States President Donald Trump has said the country’s military bombed military installations on Iran’s Kharg island, warning the area’s critical oil facilities could be next if Iran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran, in turn, threatened on Saturday to reduce US-linked oil facilities to “a pile of ashes” if oil structures on the island were attacked, as the US-Israel war on Iran, now in its punishing third week, spilled over into a global oil price crisis already in the making.
US Central Command spoke later in the day of what it described as a large-scale precision strike. “U.S. Forces successfully struck more than 90 Iranian military targets,” CENTCOM said.
State media outlet IRNA, citing a senior provincial official, said exports from the island were continuing normally despite the US attack.