US EditionLeverage Reward vs Casualty Risk: Trump Faces Tough Kharg Island Choice
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Trump threatened to take the island of Kharg, but close to Iran, the US action is difficult both by sea and by air. Good-neighbourly operation would always have low between North American soldiers.
By Billy Stockwell, CNN. Even as US President Donald Trump has declared that “the war has been won” against Iran, amphibious warships, landing craft, and thousands of marines and sailors are being deployed to the region. The deployment has fueled speculation about whether the US plans to seize Kharg Island, a coral formation off the coast of Iran and an economic lifeline for Tehran that handles roughly 90% of the country’s crude oil exports.
The small island of Kharg in the Persian Gulf is Iran's energy heart, through which over 90 percent of the country's oil exports flow. Faced with the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the Trump administration is openly considering a scenario that seemed impossible not long ago: a military invasion and seizure of the island. Experts point out that an attempt to seize Kharg would be extremely risky for the Americans.
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