{"id":28804,"date":"2026-03-15T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28804"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:26:08","slug":"trump-warns-of-more-strikes-on-irans-kharg-island-pressures-allies-on-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-warns-of-more-strikes-on-irans-kharg-island-pressures-allies-on-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns of more strikes on Iran&#8217;s Kharg Island, pressures allies on Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the US-Israeli war on Iran in its third week, Trump said US strikes had &#8220;<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">totally<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> demolished&#8221; much of the island and warned of more, telling <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NBC News<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on Saturday, &#8220;We may hit it a few more times just for fun.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The remarks marked a sharp escalation from Trump, who had previously said the US was targeting only military sites on Kharg, and undercut diplomatic efforts. His administration has rebuffed \u200befforts by Middle Eastern allies to start negotiations, three sources told <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The war showed no sign of ending. Trump said Tehran \u200bappeared ready to make a deal to end the conflict <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">but<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> that &#8220;the terms aren&#8217;t good enough yet.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tehran&#8217;s ability to halt shipping through \u2060the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world&#8217;s oil passes, poses a <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">difficult problem<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for the US and its allies.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Energy prices are soaring as the war \u200bcauses the biggest-ever disruption in oil supply, and the energy crisis <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">looks<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> set to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28805,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44,26],"class_list":["post-28804","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"United States (US) President Donald \u200bTrump threatened further strikes on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, an artery for global \u200cenergy supplies, as Tehran vowed to intensify its response.","published_date":"","news_description":"United States (US) President Donald \u200bTrump threatened further strikes on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, an artery for global \u200cenergy supplies, as Tehran vowed to intensify its response.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28806,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28804\/revisions\/28806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}