US airstrikes targeted military facilities on Kharg Island today, though Iranian state media reports oil infrastructure remains untouched. Meanwhile, IRGC commanders claim the accuracy of their retaliatory missile strikes against US and Israeli targets has doubled over the past 48 hours.
According to the pro-military channel اخبارفوری خبرفوری جنگ امریکا فوری, US airstrikes targeted Kharg Island today, with field sources reporting more than 15 explosions. The strikes attempted to damage army air defenses, the Joshan naval base, the airport control tower, and the continental shelf helicopter hangar, resulting in thick smoke rising from the island. Multiple state-aligned outlets, including آخرین خبر and خراسان آنلاین, carried identical reports of the attack.
Despite the heavy bombardment, all oil infrastructure remained completely undamaged. The Iranian outlets reiterated previous warnings that if the country's energy infrastructure is attacked, all regional oil and gas infrastructure in which America and its allies have an interest will be set on fire and destroyed. This threat comes amid a backdrop of global oil prices already surging past $120 a barrel following the recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian media actively pushed back against recent statements by US President Donald Trump. While Trump claimed to have struck all military targets on Kharg Island and destroyed Iranian air defenses, Iranian sources declared these claims invalidated, noting that the island's air defense systems reactivated just an hour after the latest round of attacks. Furthermore, despite Trump's claims of completely destroying Iran's missile capabilities during the massive strikes of March 9-13, the pro-government channel حامیان پزشکیان emphasized that the wave of missile and drone attacks has reached the forty-eighth round.
In a related development, Iranian officials claimed significant tactical improvements in their ongoing retaliatory strikes. IRGC Aerospace Commander Sardar Seyed Majid Mousavi stated that over the past 48 hours, the hit rate of Iranian missiles on the targets of American and Zionist criminals has doubled. The hardline روزنامه وطن امروز echoed his declaration, reporting that "the embrace of the sky has been opened to the giant Iranian missiles" and that the punishment of the aggressor continues.
The source channels heavily rely on standardized, identically worded templates distributed across various state-aligned and pro-IRGC media; the five-point report on Kharg Island is copy-pasted across at least six different channels. The English translation preserves the strong anti-US and anti-Israel bias (e.g., 'American and Zionist criminals', 'punishment of the aggressor') present in the original Farsi text without sanitizing or qualifying the rhetoric with quotation marks, adhering to the strict translation fidelity instruction.