U.S. Strikes Iranian Military Targets in Kharg Island as Trump’s Deadline Approaches
Around 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil flows through the Kharg Island.
The United States on Tuesday struck military targets on Kharg Island, Iran’s biggest oil terminal.
As President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night deadline approaches, the U.S. Military appears to have intensified strikes on regime targets across Iran. According to NBC News, “an intense wave of strikes was reported on bridges across Iran and on Kharg Island, the country’s key oil export hub.”
This is the second U.S. strike of its kind on Kharg Island. Previously, the U.S. struck the island on 13 March.
Kharg Island, measuring only 8 square miles, is critical for Iran’s oil-driven economy. Around 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil flows through the Persian Gulf island.
Several explosions caused by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes reported in Iran’s Kharg Island, according to Iran’s semi-official Mehr. pic.twitter.com/sy8SSjzHNd
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) April 7, 2026
The strike on Kharg Island was focused exclusively on military assets stationed there. “U.S. official … told Reuters the additional strikes on military targets did not impact oil infrastructure,” the news agency reported. “The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, described at least some of the strikes as targeting sites that had been previously struck before and said the attack occurred in the early morning hours of Tuesday.”
Exactly twelve hours ahead of the deadline, set to expire at 8.00 P.M. Eastern Time, President Trump issued an ominous warning. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” the president warned on Truth Social.
“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?” he wrote. “We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.”
The president of the United States, 8:06 am ET, threatens Iran: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.“ pic.twitter.com/JRusY97fGB
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) April 7, 2026
The U.S. targeting of Iranian bridges coincided with a wave of Israeli strikes on railway infrastructure nationwide. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in a brief statement on Tuesday afternoon, confirmed carrying out “a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting dozens of infrastructure sites belonging to the Iranian terror regime in several areas across Iran.” These strikes on the railways and the road network cripple the regime’s ability to relocate troops and transfer weaponry.
The Times of Israel reported:
The Israeli Air Force bombed around 10 “key” rail sections and bridges in Iran on Tuesday, as part of efforts to prevent the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from moving weapon systems, a security official told The Times of Israel.
Ahead of the strikes, the IDF warned Iranians to stay away from trains until this evening.
The security official said the IRGC had used the rail and highway bridges to move weapons and other military supplies. Israel has warned it would strike Iranian “national infrastructure” to cause economic damage to the regime.
🎯STRUCK: 8 bridge segments utilized by the Iranian terror regime for transporting weapons & military equipment.
The IDF struck 8 bridge segments in several areas, including Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kashan, & Qom. Prior to the strike, several steps were taken to mitigate harm to… pic.twitter.com/kDzkRhMFTD
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 7, 2026
Following yesterday’s Israeli strike on Iran’s largest petrochemical complex in the southern coastal city of Asaluyeh, the IDF, on Tuesday, revealed that it “struck an additional petrochemical compound in Shiraz – One of the last remaining sites used for producing critical chemical components for explosives and other materials for developing ballistic missiles.”
“The facility was one of the last remaining compounds producing critical chemical components for explosives and materials for developing ballistic missiles in Iran, following the IDF’s strike on the largest petrochemical facility in Iran and on the petrochemical compound in Mahshahr,” the Israeli military added.
🎥✈️WATCH: How the IAF strikes Iranian terror regime air defense systems. pic.twitter.com/zO8zn0uB5c
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 7, 2026
While in hiding, regime leadership call on supporters to form human shields against U.S.-Israeli strikes
While the regime leadership continues to hide in bunkers and underground tunnels, it is telling ordinary Iranians to act as human shields to protest its nuclear, military and logistical infrastructure as President Trump’s ultimatum expires in next few hours.
On Tuesday, crowds of loyalists showed up to shield regime infrastructure, Iranian state media claims. “Iranian media published footage Tuesday showing human chains forming around key infrastructure sites, including a power station in Tabriz and a bridge near Dezful, as Tehran braces for potential U.S. strikes,” Israel’s Ynetnews reported. “The images appeared to show civilians standing shoulder to shoulder around sensitive locations, in what analysts described as an attempt to deter strikes by creating a form of human shield.”
WATCH 🔴
Iranians form human shield at Kazeroun power plant ahead of Trump’s threatened strikes. pic.twitter.com/vb0U4sXcxG
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 7, 2026
The action takes place after regime officials called upon supporters to act as human shields. “An Iranian official has called on the country’s youth and other communities to gather around power plants and other critical infrastructure to protect them from President Trump’s threats to blow up key infrastructure if Iran doesn’t agree to a cease-fire proposal with the U.S.,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
A human chain forms on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as Iranians rally to protect key infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/E0PS0SqcRj
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 7, 2026
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this might/will require boots on the ground if only to protect the engineers who will need to come in
If these people are truly civilians and not militants then we can escort them right out of the way (by force if necessary)
Who says were gonna allow any rebuilding? Even if we do allow it we’re under zero obligation to assist or fund it. Let the EU figure it out since they buy the oil.
the eu is completely responsible but guess what
its also in our best interest, if/when it becomes available to do what we do and have eurotrash pay for it..if trumps in charge, they will foot the bill if not all…most of it per capita
Why is it in our national interest to secure the flow of oil or anything else to the European Nations on their behalf? They can sack up and do it themselves expending their own blood and treasure to do so if they want it. Otherwise I suppose they could unconditionally surrender their sovereignty to the USA becoming true vassal States taking orders from the USA about all aspects of their domestic, foreign and economic policy while enthusiastically calling Trump ‘Daddy’ for the next couple years.
its in our best interest to take the area over with all that oil money and power of the straits….
well they do take orders from the usa
the difference this time the orders are being given by pro usa trump and not the fjb obama bush clowns
1. Taking the oil for USA and sending it to the EU are wildly different things.
2. We don’t need the oil/Nat Gas the EU does. We have plenty within our hemisphere, enough to share with reliable/responsible partner Nations like Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. The EU doesn’t have close to enough.
3. The EU aka NATO Nations take orders from the USA? What are you smoking? Spain, France told us to pound sand when we wanted to use our bases to support attacks on Iran. Even the UK initially refused permission. They can freeze to death in winter, starve from lack of agricultural production and enjoy rioters fighting over the last loaf of bread in the industrial wasteland they created by lack of foresight in energy policy and choosing very poorly in not backing the USA.
4. We can control the oil and deny it to our adversaries by sitting back well outside of Iran and blowing up attempts to repair the facilities we damage. The EU can go kick rocks.
Engineers for what?
construction
Construction of what? We have no obligation to build that back for them. We didn’t want to have to destroy it in the first place, they forced that issue.
Trump probably shouldn’t have told them the exact sites he was going to bomb
Now they have children on bridges and in front of power plants
That was going to happen, anyway. This regime is evil.
Democrats and moslems have no problem killing kids. Anything to satisfy baphomet/allah’s blood lust.
Sadly, these children would have likely grown up to be IRGC… continuing the enslavement of Iran. Think of this as “preventative care”. Islam…. remember that they “love death more than life”. Why would we want to get in their way of love?
Perverted thinking
From a country that sent 12 year olds into battle against Iraq with promises of being bullet=proof and 72 tweens. A country that hung infidels and gave gays flying lessons. A regime that follows Islamic law and rape virgins before killing them. Tough hard reality. Tokyo 1945… Dresden… Hamburg. They make the nukes look totally humane. The best way to reduce the number of future human shields is to make sure the first uses don’t work.
Trump threatens civilian infrastructure: the left howls about “international war crimes.”
Iran directs civilians to surround military targets: crickets from the left.
Hey remember this cartoon? It was pulled because it was “racist and dehumanizing.”
Trump is not in charge of what the evil adults do. Children are always the most tragic victims of war.
Previous reports say IRGC has relocated many of their units to schools. Now’s a good time to bomb the schools while the children are on the bridges..
Sucks to be them b/c that’s probably not gonna be an effective strategy. Entering into the blast radius of projected targets is a Darwinian dead end and I’d suggest they move away from there while they can. Harsh? Maybe but no harsher than allowing terrorists to successfully use human shield tactics to deter military strikes necessary to end a conflict. At root conflicts cost lives, blood and treasure. That’s baked into the cake when every decision to use force is made. We killed I don’t know how many ‘civilians’ in Iraq, probably several hundred thousand. We enforced a dusk to dawn curfew by killing anyone out after dark. If we saw them we shot them till they stopped moving and picked up the bodies in the AM. We took every vehicle and pedestrian under fire if they failed to yield or came within a set distance to us. Lots of folks who may/may not have had bad intentions got smoked b/c the RoE demanded it.
Echoes of the no-Good sisters: “You’re using real bombs??!! And allah didn’t protect us??!!”
The Iranian Islamofascist/terrorist regime can talk tough and posture, but they will be ruling over a third world moonscape, before long.
Imagine the anguish that the Dems feel watching kindred spirits going through this. The Islamo-Marxist (D) axis in the US must feel disheartened…. but they can take heart in their strongholds in the 11 or so states in the US.
Keith Ellison has his black candles and pentagram ready.
Trump gave them a heads up they didn’t deserve . He cannot be held responsible for the evil response of the Iranian regime. This is WAR.
Regime: “Get out there and protect the bridges and power plants!”
Iranian people: “Come and join us!”
Regime: “Uhhh, let me think about that. Uhhh, no.”
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Regime: allah/satan will protect you from harm, or give you a glorious death. Worry not, you, the faithful!
So find the regime and deploy bunker busters
The amount of coordination between Israel and US for this air campaign must be immense,
The true “shock and awe” is the planning and execution… not the damage on the ground. Reports that CIA had constant sat/drone coverage and was able to finally see movement on the mountain to confirm WSO was real and not a ploy. The bad part is that this power, in the hands of the wrong people, could be turned on the people of the US…. not saying who would want that but…… someone wanted a federal police force equal to the US military…..
“When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.”
Through the Looking Glass,
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
The civilians have been warned. If they put themselves in harm’s way, that’s on them.
1% of the country has internet access
They have no idea
For thousands of years, people didn’t need the Internet to know to move AWAY from combat smoke and fire. They could see it.
IRGC: Trust us, and not your ears and eyes, which lie like the infidel dogs!
There’s this thing called radio. The word is out via shortwave radio broadcast and word of mouth. Even if it wasn’t anyone showing the very poor judgement to stand in front of a potential target really does have some questionable judgement and while they may not ‘deserve’ what’s coming their way… they gonna get it.
Conflict isn’t a video game. Real people get injured, maimed and die. There ain’t any ‘do overs’ there’s no respawn like a video game. Breaking things and killing people is the heart of conflict. Crushing the enemy’s will to fight, to inflict enough damage, death, pain and destruction to ‘make their ass quit’ is the entire purpose. Either you’re willing to accept that truth or you should oppose conflict.
Anyone who becomes a human shield is an enemy. Civilian or not.
But not for long.
I find it fascinating that the Mullahs are inhuman enough to attempt to use our humanity against us..
This is one of those questions we pondered in Philosophy class –
If you don’t bomb these human-shielded places, obviously you save the lives of innocents there. However the Regime will stay in power, the war will continue and other innocents will die either from the war or at the hands of the Regime.
My solution to the track switch dilemma/trolley problem in my philosophy class was to suggest public execution of those responsible for creating the dilemma by failing to set up adequate safety protocols all the way from the local train supervisors to the CEO, to the regulatory boards and the politicians who failed to conduct adequate oversight. My Prof was not amused at my solution.
“I find it fascinating that the Mullahs are inhuman enough to attempt to use our humanity against us.”
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
–FRANK HERBERT (CHILDREN OF DUNE)
It’s hardly a secret who the indigenes of Dune represented.
Borrowing from a mis-stated quote from Phil Sheridan… the only good IRGC is a dead IRGC. Or from a Pope…”Kill them all and let God sort them out”…. simple for God… already sorted out.
Bridges and power plants are just some examples that Trump threw out. Obviously, he has not listed every possible action that might be taken to disrupt the regime.
When the power goes off, people do not say, “Oh no, our power plant has been destroyed.” There are many ways of disrupting power without destroying the power plant. Likewise, destroying bridges is not the only way to disrupt transportation. There are key sections of roads, tunnels, etc that are vulnerable. There is no way you can protect against everything.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.“
Anyone with two braincells can see this is obviously hyperbole.
Oh course. But would you prefer,
please give up or we’re going to scratch the pain on your cars?”
Good thing you weren’t around for Churchill’s
“We shall fight them in the beaches…, speech.
Still, you have to have huge balls to threaten the legacy of Alexander the Great.
Recent studies by leftist scholars have proved that statistically Alexander was only slightly above average.