Satellite Show Massive Suspected Oil Spill Near Iran Export Hub ^21%

Newsmax - By Aaron McNicholas, Catherine Cartier - 5/8/2026, 5:06 PM

Availability Heuristic 35.5% - Negativity Bias 32.1% - Anchoring Bias 27.3%

A suspected oil spill covering dozens of square kilometers of sea near Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island has been seen on satellite imagery this week. The likely spill - appearing on images as a grey and white slick - covered waters to the west of the 8-kilometer (5-mile) long island, pictures from Copernicus’s Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2... more