Ed Kalecki

President Trump said the U.S.

bombed military targets on a critical Iranian outpost in the Persian Gulf and threatened additional strikes targeting oil infrastructure if Tehran continued to block energy flows in the latest escalation of the two-week conflict that has upended the region.

Trump said American forces executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East, including destroying military targets on Karg Island.

Trump writing in a social media post added that for reasons of decency, I have chosen not to wipe out the oil infrastructure on the island, though he warned Iran's leaders that he would immediately reconsider that decision if they interfered with ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The Wall Street Journal reports five U.S.

Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

This according to two U.S.

officials.

The tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike on the Saudi base in recent days.

The U.S.

Central Command declined to comment.

The tankers were damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired.

No one was killed in the strikes.

The news brings the total number of Air Force refueling planes damaged or destroyed to at least seven.

The U.S.

said it further stepped up strikes at Iran as both sides in the war threatened to escalate a conflict hitting its two-week mark that has upended energy flows and financial markets.

U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the 14th day of the war marked the largest attacks yet in the Islamic Republic, with the U.S.

and Israel hitting around 15,000 targets since the war began.

Hegseth spoke Friday about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.