{"id":437727,"date":"2026-09-09T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/several-explosions-heard-on-kharg-island-report-437727\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:40:05","slug":"several-explosions-heard-on-kharg-island-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/several-explosions-heard-on-kharg-island-report-437727\/","title":{"rendered":"Several explosions heard on Kharg Island &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 1rem\">There is a Mehr News report that says:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2rem; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 1rem\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">\u00a0According to Mehr correspondent based on Kharg Island, the sound of several explosions was heard in parts of Kharg Island a few minutes ago<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">\u00a0The sound of explosions was heard from the area of the Kharg anchorage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 1rem\">This is regime-affiliated news service so take it with a grain of salt but the US has been striking Iran&#8217;s ships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 1rem\">WTI crude settled up $1.55 to $93.03 and is now testing the July highs again. Kharg Island is Iran&#8217;s export hub for oil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 1rem\">Update: An i24 report says the US is attacking oil tankers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 1rem\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a Mehr News report that says: \u00a0According to Mehr correspondent based on Kharg Island, the sound of several explosions was heard in parts of Kharg Island a few minutes ago&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}