US President, Donald Trump has disclosed that 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.
Trump said that US forces had “totally obliterated” all military targets on Iran’s Kharg island oil export hub, describing it in a social media post as “one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East.”
The US President said that he had chosen not to “wipe out” oil infrastructure on the Iranian island, for now.
“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.”
Donald Trump
US Central Command (CENTCOM) later described the attacks on Iran’s Kharg island as a “large-scale precision strike.”
In a short statement on X, it said that the strike “destroyed naval mine storage facilities, missile storage bunkers, and multiple other military sites.” US forces struck more than 90 Iranian military targets, the statement added, “while preserving the oil infrastructure.”
Iran’s semi-official news agency reported, quoting sources, that more than 15 explosions were heard on Kharg island during the US attacks. The sources said the attacks targeted air defences, a naval base, and airport facilities, but caused no damage to oil infrastructure.
Iran, in turn, threatened on 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.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) informed the United Arab Emirates that US “hideouts” are “legitimate targets” after the US struck Iran’s Kharg island.
Despite the US attack, state media outlet IRNA, citing a senior provincial official, said that exports from the island were continuing normally. 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.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that following the attack on Kharg island, Iran would be “wise to lay down their arms, and save what’s left of their country.” “The Fake News Media hates to report how well the United States Military has done against Iran, which is totally defeated and wants a deal – but not a deal that I would accept!” he posted separately, providing no evidence Tehran was seeking any sort of deal.
According to Iran’s Ministry of Health, at least 1,444 people have been killed and 18,551 injured by US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28, 2026.
Zeidon Alkinani, Middle East Politics Lecturer at Georgetown University in Qatar, said that Trump’s warning that he reserves the right to potentially destroy oil facilities on Kharg island if tensions over the Strait of Hormuz escalate is a worrying sign.
Speaking with a news agency, the Lecturer noted that while some regional actors had hoped for de-escalation, “the rhetoric from political leaders, including Trump, has shifted from potential compromise to continued hardline positions.”
“Both sides remain stubborn, and the global economic implications may be even more severe than the situation on the ground suggests, with energy supplies and fuel prices across the West and the world heavily affected by attacks on critical infrastructure.”
Zeidon Alkinani
Hamas Urges Iran To End Attacks On Gulf States
Meanwhile, the Palestinian group Hamas urged its ally Iran to end attacks on Gulf states, while affirming Tehran’s right to defend itself against Israel and the United States in the war they launched.
Iran has pressed on with sustained missile and drone attacks across the Gulf region, despite repeated protests from its neighbours, in ongoing retaliation in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Tehran’s strikes targeted multiple countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, late on Friday and in the early hours of Saturday.
Hamas called upon its “brothers in Iran” to not target neighbouring countries, and urged the region to end the ongoing conflict that has embroiled much of the Middle East.
Hamas said in a statement that while affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran “to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws, the movement calls on the brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighbouring countries.”
It added that countries of the region should “cooperate to halt this aggression and preserve the bonds of fraternity among them.”
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