Iran says US Kharg Island attack a failure
Global News Podcast
BBC
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On Friday President Trump said the US had obliterated military targets on the Iranian oil hub island of Kharg and threatened to target the oil infrastructure there if Iran stopped ships going through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran accused Washington of a failed mission and warned that any attacks on its energy facilities would lead to strikes on US-linked oil interests in the region. Also: People in the Gulf State of Qatar have been told to evacuate several areas that could be targeted by Iranian missiles; the Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group, Hamas, has urged Iran to stop attacking its Gulf neighbours; and the environmental cost of war on Iran as oil fires and toxic air spread.
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| 0:30.2 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway with the latest on the US-Israeli war on Iran. |
| 0:35.0 | We're recording this at 13 hours GMT. An Iranian news agency says a US attack on its |
| 0:40.8 | oil exporting island failed to achieve its goals. President Trump says military targets on Haag were |
| 0:47.0 | obliterated. In a rare rebuke to its ally, the Palestinian militant group Hamas has called on Iran |
| 0:53.0 | to stop its attacks on neighboring countries. |
| 0:56.1 | And we look at the environmental impact of the war. |
| 1:03.6 | How long will the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continue? |
| 1:07.8 | Donald Trump said on Friday he didn't think it would last long, but added it will end |
| 1:12.1 | quote, when I feel it in my bones. The US is sending additional warships and marines to the region, |
| 1:18.8 | suggesting the possibility of American boots on the ground in the near future. However, |
| 1:23.8 | President Trump is under pressure at home over the war's impact on oil prices. |
| 1:28.5 | On Friday, he said the US had obliterated military targets on the Iranian oil hub of Haargh |
| 1:33.9 | and threatened to target the oil infrastructure there if Iran stopped ships going through the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:40.3 | Iran responded by saying any attacks on its energy facilities would lead to strikes on US oil interests in the region. |
| 1:47.7 | So, what are we to make of it all? Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 1:53.8 | If you strip away the kind of bomb burst from this, because there's a certain degree of chest beating by both sides here. |
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