General Jack Keane: Iran will face 'economic collapse' if Kharg Island controlled by US
April 9, 2026
Sky News Australia
Former US Army vice chief of staff General Jack Keane discusses the importance of Kharg Island to the Iranian regime. “We also have a strategic asset that the Iranians hold very dearly, and it’s Kharg Island,” Mr Keane told Andrew Bolt. “This island is the major distribution point for the Iranians, and 90 plus per cent of all oil passes through this distribution point, pipeline in, takers out.
“If we take control of that strategic asset and then we assume we don’t have a deal and we tell the Iranians, ‘You will lose all of your oil if you don’t give up your nuclear capability fully and let us take it’ …. And if they don’t do that, then we destroy it. “That would be economic collapse for this regime for sure.”
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