{"id":81366,"date":"2026-03-14T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81366"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:25:59","slug":"u-s-bombs-kharg-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-bombs-kharg-island\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bombs Kharg Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-ei0myh evys1bk0\">The United States bombed military installations late Friday night on Kharg Island, Iran\u2019s main oil export hub, and President Trump threatened to \u201cwipe out\u201d the oil infrastructure there if Iran continued to block the Strait of Hormuz and hobble the global oil trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-ei0myh evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s threat did not immediately appear to force Iran to back down from its blockade of the strait, through which one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil tankers transit. Instead, on Saturday, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said it would retaliate to such an American attack by turning U.S. regional assets to \u201ca pile of ash.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773476759\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Bombs Kharg Island\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The United States bombed military installations late Friday night on Kharg Island, Iran\u2019s main oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}