and several explosions have been heard there," Iran's Mehr news agency reported. According to an X post by journalist Barak Ravid of the news site Axios, citing a US official, the US carried out "strikes on military targets" on the island located off Iran's western coast. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened nationwide destruction of Iran's civilian infrastructure and on Tuesday he said a "whole civilization" could be wiped out. However, The New York Times quoted an unidentified White House official saying that the targets on Kharg Island were military. CNN quoted a US official saying the strikes were against military targets and did not hit oil facilities. Kharg Island is at the heart of Iran's oil export industry, a lynchpin of the country's battered economy, and lies in the narrow, strategic Hormuz Strait. It has Iran's largest oil terminal, oil pipelines, storage tanks and related infrastructure. On March 13, the United States said it bombed more than 90 military targets on the island, without hitting oil infrastructure. (Bssnews)