# US Military Hits Targets Near Iran’s Kharg Island

https://mins.news/en/video/50525

- Bloomberg Television, 2026-09-08 23:19 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSl6aYSt3to

> The program “Balance of Power” examines politics and global business. Michael Allen, a former national security special assistant to President George W. Bush, says the US is taking its economic pressure campaign against Iran “right to the jugular,” calling Kharg Island the “Achilles’ heel of the Iranian oil system.”

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