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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\n**Donald Trump has said US forces have ‘totally obliterated’ military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island.**\n\nPosting on Truth Social, the US president hailed American troops who ‘executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East’.\n\nKharg Island, located 16 miles off the coast of Iran and around 300 miles from the Strait of Hormuz, handles around 90% of its oil exports.\n\nDubbed the ‘Forbidden Island’, it is heavily guarded by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).\n\nUS President Donald Trump threatened to strike the oil infrastructure of Iran’s Kharg Island hub unless Tehran stopped attacking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz (Picture: realDonaldTrump/Truth Social)\n\nAnnouncing the bombing raid, Trump wrote: ‘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’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.\n\n‘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.’\n\nIn a later post, Trump said: ‘Iran had plans of taking over the entire Middle East, and completely obliterating Israel. JUST LIKE IRAN ITSELF, THOSE PLANS ARE NOW DEAD!’\n\nSatellite image hows a view of Iran’s Kharg Island, which hosts the country’s main crude export terminal (Picture: Planet Labs PBC/AFP via Getty Images)\n\nThe president had earlier threatened to strike oil infrastructure on Kharg Island unless attacks on vessels on the Strait of Hormuz ceased.\n\nThe IRGC warned the energy infrastructure of US allies in the Middle East will be ‘reduced to ashes’ if Iranian energy assets were attacked.\n\nIt said oil and energy assets of any countries cooperating with the US would be ‘immediately destroyed’ in the event of more attacks on the country’s energy sites.\n\nIn a social media post, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said the regime ‘will abandon all restraint’ if the islands come under attack and said Trump will be responsible for ‘the blood of American soldiers’.\n\nAn oil tanker burns after being hit by an Iranian strike in the ship-to-ship transfer zone at Khor al-Zubair port near Basra, Iraq (Picture: AP)\n\nMarkets were watching for any sign that US strikes had damaged the island’s intricate network of pipelines, terminals and storage tanks.\n\nEven minor disruptions could further tighten global supply, adding pressure to a volatile market.\n\nOil prices have swung sharply on Trump’s changing comments about the likely duration of the war, which began on February 28 with massive US and Israeli bombardments of Iran and quickly spread into a regional conflict with broad consequences for worldwide energy and stock markets.\n\nIranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi participates in the traditional Quds Day rally in the capital Tehran (Picture: Anadolu via Getty Images)\n\nSmoke rises after airstrikes in Tehran, Iran (Picture: Anadolu via Getty Images)\n\nThe US embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad was hit in a missile attack on Saturday, causing smoke to rise from the building, Iraqi security sources said.\n\nThey did not have further details on the strike.\n\nIn other attacks across the region, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had carried out additional attacks on Israel with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.\n\nLebanon has become an escalating flashpoint in the war with Israel’s military and Hezbollah forces exchanging strikes in and around Beirut.\n\nOn Friday, the Israeli military said its air force had struck more than 200 targets in western and central Iran over the past day, including ballistic missile launchers, air-defence systems and weapons production sites.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,****check our news page**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Trump says US has ‘totally obliterated’ targets at Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ oil hub"
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