Phil Stewart and David Lawder – Reuters Aug 31, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video clip that he said was Iran’s oil hub Kharg Island being blown to smithereens, hours after the two countries traded attacks for the first time since July.
It was not clear if Trump’s post was a threat to Kharg Island or if an attack was taking place.
Several hours after the post, there was no evidence Kharg had been attacked.
The White House and the U.S. Defense Department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment outside regular business hours. There was no immediate response to Trump’s post on Iranian media.
“Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!! President DJT,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, but gave no further details.
Reuters confirmed that an accompanying video clip showing dramatic explosions was most likely synthetically-generated, using software that detects AI-manipulated imagery.
Attacking Kharg, which handled 90% of Iran’s oil exports before the war launched by U.S. and Israeli attacks on February 28, would severely disrupt its energy trade and put huge pressure on its economy.
Iran was not seeking war but would respond decisively to any aggression, President Masoud Pezeshkian said.
“We will never remain silent in the face of any aggression and will respond decisively to the aggressors,” state media quoted him as saying on Monday ahead of a visit to Kyrgyzstan.
In retaliation Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched ballistic missile attacks on two US bases in Jordan and another in the UAE. In addition, the IRGC claim to have shot down a long-range US Reaper drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran says it targeted American base in UAE, shot down US drone
TRT World – Aug 31, 2026
Tehran says dozens of explosive drones targeted US personnel and helicopters at Al Minhad Air Base in retaliation for a US strike on Iran’s Larak Island.
Iran’s military said on Monday it had launched dozens of explosive drones at US troops and helicopters stationed at Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, in retaliation for a US strike on Iran’s Larak Island.
The Iranian army said the attack targeted locations housing US military personnel and helicopters at the base, which it described as an important logistics and air transport hub for foreign forces, according to Iranian news agencies.
The army vowed further retaliation against US troops, saying the operation was in response to the killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard members and civilians in Sunday’s US strike.
A US MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down. Click to enlarge
The Guards separately said on Monday that it had shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Strait of Hormuz with missile fire, causing it to crash into Gulf waters, according to Iran’s Mehr News Agency.
The developments followed US strikes on two Iranian launchers on Larak Island on Sunday, marking the first US strikes on Iranian territory since late July, a US official told Axios.
The operation targeted systems that were allegedly being prepared to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz.
The Guards said several of its fighters and civilians were killed or injured in the attack and vowed to respond. Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that preliminary information indicated the US attack was carried out by drones.
> Trump Posts AI Video of Iran’s Kharg in ‘Smithereens’, No Evidence of Attack
> Iran retaliates with missile strikes on US installations in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. While Iranian Revolutionary Guards say they shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Strait of Hormuz
The Americans can’t seem to catch a break can they? Everything they do seems to be fruitless. The mighty ragheads are holding them back with a pile of camel dung and a bag of severed hands. They take Venezuela with a discombobulator and a quantum wormhole controlled by AI, but they can’t win against small plastic toys flying in the air. And to make matters worse, the president takes every opportunity to make an arse of himself.
I wouldn’t want go all conspiracy on you, but I think it may all be BS. Otherwise I can’t understand why the entire world (including the iranians) worship everything else the Americans do. It seems very “odd” that they’d do the covid dance, build data centres and promote 15 minute cities, for example. That they’d watch their movies, drink their drinks, wear their clothes, carry their phones, drive their cars and structure their government and army exactly like America. All of that seems a bit far fetched for some “country” fighting back against “the bad guy”. It would be like the british driving volkswagon beetles during WW2, drinking German beer and singing “the hills are alive with German beauties”. But that’s all “nonsense”…
The entire war is fake, Iran is in on it, it only exists in the pixels on your screens. Trump is the mouthpiece for the con.
1) Go to EOSDIS (nasa images)
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
(fyi ive already set it all up for you in this link)
https://go.nasa.gov/4x0pS1d
2) in the search, type in Kharg Island, Iran
3) in the settings icon just below the nasa logo (top left on screen), those are the filters, find the Fire / Heat Anomaly filter. Click on the day n night. Multiple satellites traverse the earth daily picking up on fires n heat anomalies, when it sees one it marks it with an orange dot. You can zoom out n see all the orange dots elsewhere. Zoom back in (or double tap) to get to Kharg Island. If Kharg Island was ever bombed, the island would be covered in orange dots.
4) on the bottom left of the screen by the date, click on the movie camera icon. Just do the month of Aug. Start Aug 1, end Aug 31, do about 5 days per second. Close that (X), then hit the movie arrow. It creates an animation of Kharg Island day by day.
Gi back in time as far as you want, July, June, May etc, you will never see an orange dot. Trump n the war is another con where only he n his kabalic buddies profit. This is just another kabalic psyop.
5) Share your link or mine thats already setup. They think you’re stupid.
Just remember theyr all in on it, Itan’s parliament bldg is a pyramid with 33 windows. 33 = 3+3 = 6. The bldg was built in 2004 = 2+4 = 6. 6 n 9 are center column kabala, in their eye nearest godlike. This is kabala, now you understand who the real enemy is.
Stay vigilant n share. The ai video was posted because theyr losing the mind control game. Stay thirsty.
You’ll meet plenty of people who have many thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars in their sovereign wealth funds, but unfortunately are not interested in the truth. If they knew they might lose it all because of primarily because of what the US is doing, they might come around and voice their indignation of what Trump’s America has done, at least since the days of George W Bush.
It would be a bit rich if they were to blame God. Like OBL said “you need to look closer to home” I think they need to look at themselves.
Is everything going to go ‘tits-up’?
Honest economists would say aye.
I’ll share this guy’s 12 minute video. I trust him.
He has made no mention of it, but I think he has been demonetized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcuE7SUIPbo
If they knew they might lose it all, primarily because of what the US has done, and continues to do, they might come around and voice their indignation of what Trump’s America has done, at least since the days of George W Bush.