BUDAPEST\/WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) – U.S. strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island do not represent a change in American strategy, \u200cU.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday \u200cas a U.S. official separately told Reuters the additional strikes on military targets \u200bdid not impact oil infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, described at least some of the strikes as targeting sites that had been previously struck before and \u200csaid the attack \u2060occurred in the early morning hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Vance, speaking separately in Budapest, said the strikes were \u2060not a change in U.S. strategy, with the Trump administration confident that it can get a response from Iran by 8 \u200bp.m. (0001 Wednesday \u200bGMT) in negotiations to end \u200bthe conflict. U.S. President \u200cDonald Trump is demanding Iran forswear nuclear weapons and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil transit waterway.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going to strike some military targets on Kharg Island, and I believe we have done so,” Vance said.<\/p>\n
“We’re not going \u200cto strike energy and infrastructure targets \u200buntil the Iranians either make a \u200bproposal that we can \u200bget behind or don’t make a proposal,” he \u200cadded. “I don’t think the news \u200bin Kharg Island … \u200brepresents a change in strategy, or represents any change from the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Phil \u200bStewart and Idrees \u200cAli in Washington, Humeyra Pamuk in Budapest; additional reporting \u200bby Trevor Hunnicutt and Bhargav Acharya; writing by Susan \u200bHeavey, editing by Michelle Nichols )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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