The United States has carried out this Tuesday a bombing on Kharg Island, a key enclave for Iran as it concentrates a good part of its crude exports, just hours before the ultimatum of US President, Donald Trump, expires for Tehran to accept a ceasefire agreement in the conflict and allow the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
In an appearance before the media in Budapest, a city to which he has traveled to show his support for the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, ahead of this Sunday's elections, the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, has alluded to these new military attacks, although he has stressed that they do not imply a modification of Washington's strategy.
Vance has explained that he has maintained contacts with the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and with the head of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, "on this matter." "We were going to attack some military targets on Jark Island. I think we have done it," he pointed out.
However, it has insisted that this offensive does not alter the general approach towards Iran, since the White House maintains in force an ultimatum that expires in less than 12 hours for the Iranian authorities to accept a truce in the war.
The island of Kharg, of high strategic value, was already attacked by US forces in mid-March, when the United States Army hit around a hundred military targets in the area. It then claimed to have struck naval mine storage facilities, missile bunkers and other military sites, while stating that it had acted "preserving the oil infrastructure at the same time."