New Delhi: Today is day 15 of the war launched by the US and Israel with strikes on Iran starting February 28. US President Donald Trump announced that US forces “obliterated” targets on Kharg Island, located off the southwest coast of Iran, which is home to the primary terminal that handles the country's oil exports. Further, he suggested that the island's oil infrastructure could be attacked next. This comes just a day after the speaker of the Iranian parliament said such a strike would provoke a new level of retaliation.

Meanwhile, about 100 sailors from the Iranian naval vessel IRIS Lavan flew out of Kochi airport on a chartered flight around 7 pm on Friday (March 13). As reported earlier, Iran in its “urgent” request on February 28 had cited “technical issues” with the Lavan, government sources said days after a US submarine torpedoed the IRIS Dena frigate off Sri Lanka’s southern coast killing 87 people on board. On March 1, India approved for it to dock in Kochi, and the vessel’s crew of 183 persons were in the southern port after it docked there on March 4, the sources added.

More than 1400 people have been killed in Iran by Israeli and US strikes, at least 773 in Lebanon and at least 15 people have died in Israel, as per reports.

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