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.
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 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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