DONALD Trump has posted an AI video of Iran’s “Forbidden Island” after reigniting his war by launching strikes for the first time in a month.
“Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!” the US President wrote on X, alongside a clip showing the hub, which handles about 90 percent of the country’s crude oil exports, exploding.
It was not clear if his post was a threat to Kharg Island – or if an attack was taking place.
Oil operations have not stopped, according to Hamid Bovard, CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company, as cited by Nournews.
Blasting Trump’s post as “laughable,” he said: “Conditions in Kharg are calm and appropriate.”
Attacking Kharg, where contractors are currently rebuilding and modernising storage tanks and jetties, would severely disrupt its energy trade and put huge pressure on its economy.
It comes as the US targeted rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz late last night amid reported intelligence that the Revolutionary Guard Corps were preparing to deploy sea mines in the crucial waterway.
Forces had spent weeks clearing sea mines from the highly contested strait to allow for the free movement of vessels patrolling the international shipping route.
Several major explosions were heard on Larak Island which sits on the strait.
Two Iranian rocket launchers were destroyed in the attacks, according to an anonymous US official.
Iran said several of its fighters had been killed and badly wounded in the blasts, and vowed to meet the aggression with a “response and punishment”.
Iranian state TV then broadcast footage of ballistic missiles being fired by Iran at US bases in Jordan.
Neither the US or Jordan have confirmed the attacks.
The last US strikes on Iran came in late July as the war has reached a stalemate.
Trump has changed tack in recent weeks, announcing crippling plans to launch a crushing “Operation Economic Outcast” against Iran.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/16923808/us-strikes-iran-rocket-launchers/
