India, March 9 -- Amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia with Iran actively engaged in war with the United States and Israel, sending oil prices soaring on Monday to as high as $119 a barrel, a small Iranian island, Kharg, finds itself on US President Donald Trump's radar.

Apart from mulling sending special operation units into Iran to get hold of its stockpile of highly enriched Uranium to prevent it from making a nuclear weapon, the United States has also considered taking control of the Kharg Island, which is a key oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf and is responsible for around 90 per cent of Iran's crude oil exports, reported Axios citing unnamed US administration officials.

However, even though Kharg island serves as the back...