Kharg Island:
The United States is considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island to choke off the regime’s oil revenues, a US official has suggested.
- It is a small coral island in Iran in the northern Persian Gulf.
- This island is unique because it is one of the few islands in the Persian Gulf with freshwater, which has collected within the porous limestone.
- The island experiences hot and humid summers, and its highest point is Mount Didehban.
- The discovery of an offshore oil field in the waters around Kharg in the early 1960s stimulated the development of the island as a site for major petroleum and petrochemical installations.
- Connection by pipelines to the underwater oil fields, as well as to the oil fields in Khuzistan province, transformed Kharg into Iran’s largest oil-loading terminal by the early 1970s.
- Its strategic significance lies in its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial global oil passage.
