Top updates: Trump warns of more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday said that American forces will strike targets on Iran’s key oil export hub Kharg Island “just for fun” amid escalating tensions in West Asia, NBC News reported.

Trump said that American strikes on Friday “totally demolished” much of the island’s military infrastructure but deliberately avoided damaging oil facilities that handle most of Iran’s crude exports.

The island is an 8-km stretch of land off the Iranian coast that handles about 90% of the country’s crude exports.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• The US president also said Iranian officials have quietly reached out seeking a deal to end the war but insisted he was not ready to agree to a ceasefire yet. “Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump told NBC News.
• When asked about favourable terms, Trump said any deal would require Iran to completely abandon its nuclear ambitions, though he declined to specify the conditions publicly.
• On Saturday, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi alleged that the US launched strikes on Kharg Island and Abu Musa from two locations in the United Arab Emirates – Ras Al Khaimah and an area “very close to Dubai”, MS News reported. “It is clear that they...

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