{"id":539750,"date":"2026-03-14T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539750\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:30:12","slug":"trump-says-us-bombed-irans-kharg-island-2500-marines-us-warship-sent-to-middle-east-fresh-airstrikes-hit-beirut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539750\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US bombed Iran\u2019s Kharg Island; 2500 Marines, US warship sent to Middle East; Fresh airstrikes hit Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has threatened to destroy oil and energy facilities in the region that cooperate with, or are partly owned by, the US if Iran\u2019s energy facilities are hit, local media has reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll oil, economic, and energy facilities belonging to oil companies in the region that are partly owned by the United States or that cooperate with the United States will be immediately destroyed and reduced to ashes\u201d if Iran\u2019s energy assets are attacked, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported the military\u2019s Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters has said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kharg Island is the most valuable piece of economic infrastructure to Iran.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6fd705d76052d7b5e051f8a8c57cbdec21bc5964.png\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Kharg Island is the most valuable piece of economic infrastructure to Iran.AP<\/p>\n<p>The warning came after US President Donald Trump confirmed the American military had bombed <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/middle-east\/the-tiny-island-that-could-let-trump-beat-iran-without-sending-a-single-soldier-20260310-p5o8y6.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the critical Iranian base<\/a> of Kharg Island. Trump said the US had not targeted the island\u2019s oil infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>However, he warned he would reconsider this if \u201cIran, or anyone else, [should] do anything to interfere with the free and safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The island is economically and strategically important for Iran, Australian National University Expert Amin Saikal told the ABC earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething like 80 to 90 per cent of Iranian crude oil is exported from that island to the outside world,\u201d Saikal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has threatened to destroy oil and energy facilities in the region that cooperate with, or are partly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-539750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}