No oil infrastructure was damaged in US strikes on Kharg Island, Tehran’s crude export hub in the Gulf, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
The media is spinning the Kharg Island strikes all wrong.
They claim “decency” for sparing the oil infrastructure.
The truth? They are terrified.
Destroying Iran’s oil lifeline wouldn’t just hurt Tehran it would send global oil prices to $150+ a barrel and crash Western… pic.twitter.com/B477Khb6TV— Persian Girl (@ShirinLady) March 14, 2026
The Fars news agency, citing sources on the island, reported there had been no damage to oil facilities after President Donald Trump said US strikes had destroyed only military targets.
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Trump had threatened in a social media post to target oil infrastructure on the island, a crucial hub for Iran, if Tehran continues to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has, in turn, threatened to target US-linked oil infrastructure.
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According to Fars, the US operation “tried to damage the army’s defences, the Joshan naval base, the airport control tower and the helicopter hangar of the Iran Continental Shelf Oil Company.”
Kharg Island, a scrubby stretch of land in the northern Gulf around 30 kilometres (19 miles) off the Iranian mainland, handles roughly 90 percent of Iran’s crude exports.
