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Trump Warns of Strike on Kharg Island Oil Facilities After Bombing Military Sites
On 14 Mar 2026, following U.S. air-raids that destroyed military assets on Iran’s Kharg Island, President Donald Trump threatened to next hit the island’s oil export infrastructure unless Tehran stops disrupting tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Focusing Facts
- Kharg Island—source of roughly 90 % of Iran’s crude exports—sustained >15 U.S. strikes hitting air-defence, naval and airport facilities but no damage to pipelines or storage tanks (Fars News, 14 Mar 2026).
- Trump’s ultimatum was issued via Truth Social hours after the attacks, while war casualties reached about 2,000 dead and several million displaced two weeks into the U.S./Israel-Iran conflict.
- The U.S. KC-135 crash in western Iraq killed all 6 crew members, marking the first confirmed American fatalities of the campaign outside direct combat.
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