VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-31
“Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!”
Donald Trump · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-31
Hours after the strike, Trump posted apparent AI videos on Truth Social showing oil infrastructure exploding, with one captioned in reference to a major Iranian oil terminal.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.