US President Donald Trump is considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran’s Kharg island to pressure the country to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, US media publication Axios has reported, quoting four unnamed sources.
“We need about a month to weaken the Iranians more with strikes, take the island, and then get them by the balls and use it for negotiations,” one of the sources told Axios.
The US and Israeli attacks on the island, a hub for 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports, targeted military installations; however, a ground invasion puts the US troops within Iranian striking range.
The US military has already approved the deployment of additional troops to the region amid its war on Iran.
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Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Parliament says that oil exports from Kharg Island are continuing uninterrupted.
ReplyDelete“Security is fully established in Kharg Island, and oil export is going on without any problem and without any interruption,” its spokesperson said in a statement carried by Iran’s Tasnim News Agency.
Iran’s armed forces “are at the peak of their defence readiness and will give a decisive and crushing response to all the evils and attacks of the enemy”, the spokesperson said.
Trump has threatened to strike the oil infrastructure of Iran’s Kharg Island hub, unless Tehran stopped attacking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
ReplyDeleteIn the last week, United States forces executed a large-scale precision strike on Kharg Island in Iran.