Tehran threatens to reduce US-linked oil facilities in the region to a ‘pile of ashes’ if oil structures on the island are attacked.
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.
Kharg island is where more than 90 percent of Iran’s oil is exported. Crude oil prices have surged more than 40 percent since the war began.
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