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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; movietroll; oil; tdsbelow; 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.
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:32:58 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
To: Blueflag
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:35:24 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Blueflag
Or maybe this is a bonus-round day. We get bridges, power plants, AND Kharg island. ;-)
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:36:33 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: Blueflag
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:37:43 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Blueflag
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:38:14 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: Blueflag
Head fake? Now the Iranian Muzzies will cry “unfair.” :)
To: Blueflag
I see the mullahs have chosen the “starve in the dark” option.
CC
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
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:43:17 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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.
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:45:36 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(covfefe)
To: Blueflag
We’re almost guaranteed that it is protected by Iran Military and not ordinary Iranians.
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
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.
To: Blueflag
Perhaps control of the Straits should have been secured during week one?
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posted on
04/07/2026 4:54:28 AM PDT
by
buckalfa
(More chaos and disruption please)
To: Celtic Conservative
Hmmmmm….has anyone noticed you never hear democrats use the word TACO about Trump anymore?
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posted on
04/07/2026 5:03:16 AM PDT
by
volare737
( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
To: Theophilus
As we can tell from your tagline, you think like Trump. I like it.
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posted on
04/07/2026 5:04:35 AM PDT
by
Blennos
(This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
To: Blueflag
Sounds like over night they hit military sites on Kharg.
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posted on
04/07/2026 5:08:27 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
To: Theophilus
Actually, when this is finished, the US should start collecting a levy of $10/barrel on every tanker leaving the Gulf.
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posted on
04/07/2026 5:11:11 AM PDT
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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.
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
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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. )
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
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posted on
04/07/2026 5:27:00 AM PDT
by
hcmama
(Love that guy.)
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