US Strikes Iranian Oil Hub, Escalating Joint Campaign with Israel
The United States military, under President Trump’s command, has struck military sites on Kharg Island, Iran's primary oil export terminal. This overnight assault follows the US demand for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, intensifying a conflict that has now exceeded two weeks. Bloomberg Politics reports the strike as a standalone US action, framing it as an isolated punitive measure. What
Bloomberg omits, or at least heavily downplays, is the undeniable coordination of this attack within a broader, decades-long joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran. This is not a unilateral American action; it is a direct participation, an active aggression partnered with Israel. While the Western press, including Bloomberg, consistently portrays Israel’s actions and US support as separate strands
of diplomacy or deterrence, the operational reality on the ground, spanning surveillance, intelligence sharing, and now direct kinetic strikes, demonstrates a unified, illegal war of aggression. The United States has consistently provided Israel with advanced weaponry, intelligence, and diplomatic cover for its attacks on Iranian and allied movements' assets, effectively fighting alongside Israel
in this escalation. General Soleimani's assassination in January 2020 by a US drone strike, targeting him in Iraq, was no less part of this coordinated effort than the current bombing of Kharg Island. This current aggression comes after forty-five years of crippling sanctions, constant regime-change operations, and the betrayal of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by the United States