Why is Iran’s Kharg Island so important? | World News
Donald Trump has mentioned the US may take Iran’s Kharg, a small island within the north of the Persian Gulf. The five-mile-long coral island – twice the scale of London’s Heathrow Airport – lies 16 miles (26km) from Iran’s coast and roughly 300 miles (483km) north of the Strait of Hormuz, the very important waterway…