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US strikes Iran’s Kharg Island in Persian Gulf as Trump’s deadline looms

Apr 6, 2026Center Right

The U.S. military carried out strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island Tuesday morning, hitting military targets that it had already struck, a U.S. official told the Washington Examiner, adding that this was “not an oil infrastructure strike.” A source told the citizen journalist Telegram channel Mamlekate that the strikes were “even worse” than the last major…

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