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2026-03-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump says US ‘obliterated' military targets in strike on key Iranian oil hub: 'Powerful bombing raids'; IDF reports 7,600 strikes, 10,000+ Iranian security casualties
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. had carried out a bombing raid on Iran’s Kharg Island, a strategically vital island in the Persian Gulf that serves as the country’s largest oil terminal and a crucial hub for its crude exports.
"They'll never bomb here"
"Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The island, located roughly 35 miles off Iran’s Bushehr province in the country’s southwest, is about the size of New York City’s Central Park but carries huge importance for Iran’s economy.

It has a loading capacity of about 7 million barrels per day, and roughly 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports pass through it. Most of those exports are shipped to China and India, underscoring the island’s importance not only to Iran’s energy trade but also to broader global oil markets.

Courtesy of badanov:



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🚨 FIRST COLOR DRONE FOOTAGE FROM INSIDE IRAN

The U.S. military has released full-color daytime targeting video from inside Iran.

The footage, captured by an MQ-9A Reaper drone, shows the aftermath of a recent precision strike on a munitions storage warehouse.

The MQ-9 Reaper is one of the U.S. military’s primary strike and surveillance drones used for intelligence gathering and precision targeting during combat operations.


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🇮🇱 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: The IDF says it has carried out about 7,600 strikes across Iran, including more than 2,000 targeting Iranian regime headquarters and assets and roughly 4,700 aimed at the missile program. The Israeli Air Force has flown over 4,700 sorties so far during Operation Roaring Lion, including more than 380 missions in Iranian airspace.

In Lebanon, the IDF says it has conducted over 1,100 strikes targeting Hezbollah, including Radwan Force sites, missile launchers, command-and-control centers, and buildings used for terror activity. The military says more than 380 Hezbollah terrorists have been eliminated.


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🇮🇱 A senior Israeli Air Force official told Israel’s Channel 12 about the results achieved in the military operation against Iran:

📌 “The number of killed and wounded among Iran’s security forces exceeds 10,000.”

📌 “The Americans did not believe that our operation to eliminate Iran’s leadership would succeed.”

📌 “Together with the Americans, we destroyed between 160 and 190 Iranian missile launchers, disabled another 200, and about 150 remain operational. Iranian missile crews are afraid to come out; there are cases of desertion and refusal to follow orders. Every day we destroy several launchers.”
More at the link
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Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-14 00:08|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1898 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

1 My thought is that the US and Israel initially left Kharg Island alone as a bargaining chip to see if the Mullahs/IRGC might come to their senses and it would leave something for the Iranian future finances. 'Every Fool Deserves a Break', or something like that.

Apparently that didn't happen.
Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2026-03-14 09:59||   2026-03-14 09:59|| Front Page Top

2 Missile strikes inside US embassy compound in Baghdad as Trump's Iran war spirals: Live Updates
Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-14 10:07||   2026-03-14 10:07|| Front Page Top

3 Iran has maybe 10 days before that MEU from Japan arrives. If Iran doesn't stop attacking oil and LNG tankers, the MEU is going to take Kharg Island which will bring Iran's economy to almost complete stop. No more money for anything.
Posted by Chantry 2026-03-14 10:24||   2026-03-14 10:24|| Front Page Top

4 Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks
Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-14 11:11||   2026-03-14 11:11|| Front Page Top

5 I thought Trump said Iran's nuke program was "obliterated" last year. Maybe not.
Posted by DooDahMan 2026-03-14 11:13||   2026-03-14 11:13|| Front Page Top

6 Marines gonna occupy Kharg Island?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-03-14 11:47||   2026-03-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

7 MSM hardest hit
Posted by Matt 2026-03-14 12:18||   2026-03-14 12:18|| Front Page Top

8 Mossad says Ayatollah Stumpy is already dead!

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/13/is-the-new-supreme-leader-already-dead-n2672787
Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-03-14 13:24||   2026-03-14 13:24|| Front Page Top

9 What do you call ten thousand dead people in a single day?
"A good start."
Casualties need to be in the millions before Islam will stop, and probably not even then.
Most of the world's population holds false antisemitic views which they will not be convinced out of.
We can't live in the same world together.
There are 200-400 million Shia Muslims and 2 billion Sunni.
This is going to take a while.
Posted by Omans Slath8956 2026-03-14 14:11||   2026-03-14 14:11|| Front Page Top

10 Most of the world's population holds false antisemitic views

Which are the true antisemitic views?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-03-14 14:14||   2026-03-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

11 You're good at math, medicine. and the legal professions?
Posted by Secret Master 2026-03-14 16:10||   2026-03-14 16:10|| Front Page Top

12  LINK to fall of Terhan to the Shah's people
Posted by 3dc 2026-03-14 17:08||   2026-03-14 17:08|| Front Page Top

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