Kharg Island ‘blown to smithereens’? On cam, JD Vance explains Trump’s AI war video for Iran

JD Vance said Donald Trump's AI-generated video showing Iran's Kharg Island being blown apart was meant to send Tehran a message. The U.S. vice president warned that Washington still has “a lot of tools” at its disposal if Iran continues targeting commercial shipping, while stressing that Trump does not announce military operations on social media. A U.S. official said Kharg was not actually attacked, although American forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. With Kharg handling the bulk of Iran's oil exports before the war, was Trump's provocative AI spectacle merely a warning—or a preview of what comes next?