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Further US attacks on Iran’s Kharg Oil Hub would be ‘Economic Suicide’: Expert

Moscow, March 15 (UNI) Iran has “eliminated” the US' ability to cripple its economy with one strike on Kharg Island, Andrey Chuprygin, senior lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, tells Sputnik, as “The Islamic Republic has long adopted a policy of decentralizing its critical infrastructure and placing key pumping stations underground.”
The commissioning of the Jask oil terminal — situated beyond the Strait of Hormuz and linked by a 1,000-kilometer pipeline to Bushehr Province oil fields — means that Iran is no longer reliant on a single chokepoint for its oil exports.
If Iran retaliated for the Kharg bombing, the targets would extend beyond US bases in Qatar and Bahrain to include key allied infrastructure that underpins Western energy supply chains, the analyst speculates.
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