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Emerging - Strikes underway on Kharg Island
https://x.com/search?q=%22Iran%27s%20Kharg%20Island%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends ^ | 4/7/2026 | Various sources

Posted on 04/07/2026 4:32:58 AM PDT by Blueflag

Numerous news sites (see them at the twitter/X link) are reporting strikes on military sites on Iran's Kharg Island, with some postulating the whole power plants and bridges threat was a head-fake for an operation to take Kharg Island.

Get your popcorn out. Could be fun.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: headfake; iran; island; kharg; military; oil; war; wot
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Numerous news sites (see them at the twitter/X link) are reporting strikes on military sites on Iran's Kharg Island, with some postulating the whole power plants and bridges threat was a head-fake for an operation to take Kharg Island.

Get your popcorn out. Could be fun.

IF you go to X, you'll see that Kharg Island it "trending" and there are numerous photos and reports to follow.

1 posted on 04/07/2026 4:32:58 AM PDT by Blueflag
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To: Blueflag

GREAT!


2 posted on 04/07/2026 4:35:24 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Blueflag

Or maybe this is a bonus-round day. We get bridges, power plants, AND Kharg island. ;-)


3 posted on 04/07/2026 4:36:33 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Blueflag

https://patriots.win/p/1ASZHdPTpZ


4 posted on 04/07/2026 4:37:43 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Blueflag

Fox has it now.

https://x.com/RichSementa/status/2041475185706967047?s=20


5 posted on 04/07/2026 4:38:14 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Blueflag
Head fake? Now the Iranian Muzzies will cry “unfair.” :)
6 posted on 04/07/2026 4:39:55 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Blueflag

I see the mullahs have chosen the “starve in the dark” option.

CC


7 posted on 04/07/2026 4:42:54 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Blueflag

“ Get your popcorn out. Could be fun.”

Not sure fun is the best word.
American lives may be given to make this happen


8 posted on 04/07/2026 4:43:17 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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To: PGalt

Let’s take and keep Kharg and Qeshm permanently. Build great American bases to protect the Gulf and the Strait and project power. Then charge Iran to distribute their oil.

We don’t have to invade the mountains of Persia to subdue Iran.

We should have done the same to Iraq in 1992 and just taken their port at Basra.


9 posted on 04/07/2026 4:45:36 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Blueflag

We’re almost guaranteed that it is protected by Iran Military and not ordinary Iranians.


10 posted on 04/07/2026 4:49:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Note to foreign leaders: When PDJT sets a deadline and says “you have until tuesday”, then you HAVE UNTIL TUESDAY!

No ifs, buts or maybes...

TUESDAY!

CC


11 posted on 04/07/2026 4:50:23 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Celtic Conservative
--- "Note to foreign leaders: When PDJT sets a deadline and says “you have until tuesday”, then you HAVE UNTIL TUESDAY!"

Applies now to Democrats and Democratic Socialists of America and others who see these United States as a cow to be milked. To death.

12 posted on 04/07/2026 4:54:09 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Blueflag

Perhaps control of the Straits should have been secured during week one?


13 posted on 04/07/2026 4:54:28 AM PDT by buckalfa (More chaos and disruption please)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Hmmmmm….has anyone noticed you never hear democrats use the word TACO about Trump anymore?


14 posted on 04/07/2026 5:03:16 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: Theophilus

As we can tell from your tagline, you think like Trump. I like it.


15 posted on 04/07/2026 5:04:35 AM PDT by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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To: Blueflag

Sounds like over night they hit military sites on Kharg.


16 posted on 04/07/2026 5:08:27 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Theophilus

Actually, when this is finished, the US should start collecting a levy of $10/barrel on every tanker leaving the Gulf.


17 posted on 04/07/2026 5:11:11 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Celtic Conservative

It may well be enough rustle the Jimmies of the locals enough to start acting upon the Mullahs. Weapons would be useful, but I read something posted here over the past weekend that the Kurds kept the weapons we gave to them to give to the Iranians.


18 posted on 04/07/2026 5:21:33 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: buckalfa
Perhaps control of the Straits should have been secured during week one?

0.) Decapitate leadership
1.) Suppression of air defenses
2.) Take out key military assets
3.) Seize strategic points. <- You are here

19 posted on 04/07/2026 5:22:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Thorough planning and careful preparation is no substitute for wishful thinking. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
1) Successor leadership is even more stridently hardline

2) The events of this past weekend strongly call those assumptions into question

3)They depleted 90% of the missiles and drones at the end of Week One, right?

4) LOL

20 posted on 04/07/2026 5:27:00 AM PDT by hcmama (Love that guy.)
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