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Kharg Island is a small, heavily fortified, and strategically valuable island off Iran's northern coast.

Kharg Island lies about 15 miles off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf and is critical to the nation’s economy. Iran’s ...

The Persian Gulf island, targeted by U.S. strikes, is home to Iran’s main oil export terminal. Any disruption could jolt global energy markets.

The islands off Iran have become the latest focus of the war after a U.S strike destroyed military sites on Kharg Island.

During the first two weeks of the latest war in the Middle East, as US and Israeli strikes rained down on military and energy facilities across Iran, one site went conspicuously untouched.

Iran’s oil exports hinge on a small outpost in the Persian Gulf: Kharg Island, the loading point for almost all of the country’s crude shipments.

Geography and regional rivalries have prevented Gulf countries from finding a true alternative to the strait, which the war with Iran has effectively shut down.

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President Donald Trump claimed that Iran essentially shutting down the Strait of Hormuz "doesn't really affect" the United States the way it does "other countries." It's true that a small share of U.S ...