Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
Two oil slicks detected near Iran's Kharg Island — one covering approximately 65 square kilometers with an estimated 80,000 barrels released, and a second spanning 12-20 square kilometers — are drifting southwest toward Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, threatening desalination plants serving tens of millions and marine ecosystems already stressed by the broader Strait of Hormuz crisis. The spills appear linked to infrastructure failure at Iran's primary export terminal, where storage tanks hit critical capacity after the US naval blockade cut off export routes, though Tehran denies any leak and attributes the slicks to European tanker discharge.