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Latest exchange follows an escalation in the past week that threatens to deepen conflict
One of the US strikes took place near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, a key Iran ian oil export hub. Photograph: Orbital Horizon/Gallo Images via Getty Imagesoil tankers on Saturday, US Central Command said, including one off the coast of Kharg Island, near Iran’s key The strikes were carried out after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at two US navy ships, Central Command said.
“Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost – taking out three of yours,” said Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command. Tasnim, the semi-official Iranian news agency, reported earlier that four US missiles hit a tanker in the area of Kharg’s anchorage. Tasnim quoted local sources as saying there were no casualties and the tanker’s crew was being evacuated.
There was no immediate official announcement by Iranian authorities. The exchange of attacks follows an escalation in the past week that threatens to deepen a conflict that has dragged on since the US launched strikes on Iran in February, disrupting global energy supplies and drawing opposition from a majority of Americans beforesaid on August 31st in a one-line social media post accompanied by an AI-generated video that Kharg Island was being “blown to smithereens”.
Iranian authorities have vowed a strong response if Kharg is attacked. Iran is the third-largest producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and exported 90 per cent of its crude via Kharg Island before the war, but flows have been disrupted since a US blockade of Iranian oil exports began in mid-April.
Trump said on June 11th that he wanted to take over Kharg Island, but then said a threatened US military operation there was off the table for now, days before Tehran and Washington signed an interim agreement aimed at ending the war on June 17th. A US attack on Kharg would further pressure Iran’s oil industry and its wider economy, which is already reeling from the US naval blockade.
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