Trump says US could attack Iran’s Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’ | War between the United States and Israel against Iran News

The US president says his country could carry out more attacks on Iran’s oil export hub as he urges allies to help open the Strait of Hormuz.

US President Donald Trump threatened new attacks on Iran’s Kharg Island and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global energy supplies, as Tehran vows to step up its response.

Trump told NBC News on Saturday that the US strikes “totally demolished” much of the oil export hub and warned of more attacks on the island.

“We might hit him a few more times just for fun,” he said.

The comments would mark an escalation for Trump, who had previously said the United States was only targeting military sites in Kharg.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would respond to any attack on its energy facilities.

Araghchi told news channel MS NOW that the United States attacked Kharg Island from two locations in the United Arab Emirates: Ras Al-Khaimah and a location “very close to Dubai,” calling it “dangerous” and saying Iran “will try to be careful not to attack any populated areas” there.

U.S. Central Command, the U.S. military’s combat command responsible for operations in the Middle East, declined to comment on Araghchi’s claim. A diplomatic adviser to UAE President Anwar Gargash said on social media that the country has the right to defend itself but “still prioritizes reason and logic, and continues to exercise restraint.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday it carried out missile and drone attacks against targets in Israel and three US bases in the region, calling the attacks the first round of retaliation for workers killed in Iran’s industrial areas.

On Saturday, a missile attack on an industrial area in the central Iranian city of Isfahan killed at least 15 people while workers were inside a factory, according to Iranian media.

Meanwhile, Tehran’s ability to halt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil shipments pass, has unleashed the biggest ever disruption to global oil supplies, shaking markets and governments alike.

“The countries of the world that receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz must take care of that passage, and we will help – A LOT!” Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday.

“The United States will also coordinate with those countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly and well.”

The war that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched on February 28 has killed more than 2,000 people, most in Iran, according to government and state media reports.