Overview
- U.S. forces carried out airstrikes early Tuesday on Iran’s Kharg Island, Vice President JD Vance and other officials said.
- Military infrastructure was targeted — runways, bunkers, storage sites and air defenses — and an American official told the Associated Press oil facilities were not hit.
- Sources said some locations damaged in March were struck again, and there were no U.S. troops on the ground.
- The action came hours before President Trump’s 8 p.m. Eastern deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after he warned of far broader attacks if Iran refused.
- Oil prices jumped, with WTI above $116 and Brent over $110, as traders weighed new risks to flows from Kharg, which handles about 90% of Iran’s crude exports.