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Middle East War Live: Iran Threatens Retaliation as Trump Says US 'Obliterated' Targets on Kharg Island
Iran threatens to destroy US-linked regional oil and energy facilities after US claims of strikes on Kharg Island, which handles 90% of Iran’s crude exports, escalating tensions.
- On Saturday , Iran's military warned it would destroy US-linked oil and energy facilities if its infrastructure is hit, responding to President Donald Trump's claims about Kharg Island.
- On Saturday, Iran's military warned it would target US-linked energy infrastructure following the February 28 strikes and Tehran's parliamentary warning of retaliation, escalating the conflict.
- Kharg Island handles roughly 90 percent of Iran's crude exports and lies around 30 kilometers off the mainland, while the Central Headquarters warned attacks would reduce regional oil infrastructure with American shares to 'a pile of ashes'.
- On Friday, the US State Department unveiled a $10 million reward for Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new Supreme Leader, while additional US Marines and an amphibious ship are en route as maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz falters.
- At a virtual G7 summit on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said Iran's regime is 'about to surrender' amid Operation 'Epic Fury', and the war has sparked chaos in global markets and sent oil prices soaring.
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Donald Trump has announced that the USA has launched heavy aerial attacks against the island, saving the vital infrastructures through which it transits approximately 90% of all Iranian crude oil. A move aimed to put pressure on Tehran so that it does not interfere with the marine traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Immediate the replica of the Iran that has threatened to reduce to ashes the oil infrastructures tied to the USA in the Middle Ea…
The war in the Middle East has completed two weeks of cross-attacks between the US, Israel and Iran this Saturday. The conflict has intensified and has turned the Strait of Ormuz, blocked by Iran, into the epicenter of the dispute, thus firing oil prices globally. In this context, the United States has attacked the strategic Iranian island of Kharg, the heart of the Islamic Republic’s oil industry, this Saturday.
The Iranian Army's warning comes after threatening statements by Donald Trump following an attack on the island of Kharg.
The US targets the strategic island of the Persian Gulf, from which 80% of Tehran's oil transits. The president: "Free Hormuz or I will destroy oil bases." Iran's response: "We will reduce U.S. oil infrastructure in the Middle East to ashes"
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