{"id":362853,"date":"2026-05-14T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=362853"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:58:46","slug":"lavan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lavan-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The United Arab Emirates secretly carried out military strikes on Lavan Island of Iran during the recent Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<h2>About Lavan Island<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ars.els-cdn.com\/content\/image\/1-s2.0-S0360544224037514-gr3.jpg?resize=464%2C217&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lavan Island\" width=\"464\" height=\"217\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ScienceDirect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is an Iranian island in the <strong>Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is strategically located 18 km south of <strong>Bandar Mogham (Hormozgan Province) in the Persian Gulf.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the <em><strong>Hidden Pearl Island<\/strong><\/em>, which has long been home to pearl fishing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area:<\/strong> It is 25 kilometres in length and 5 kilometres in width.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> It has <strong>hot and humid weather<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> The average annual rainfall on this island is <strong>about 114 millimetres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economy:<\/strong> The main occupation of the people of Lavan port is working in the<strong> oil and fishing industry. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic importance:<\/strong> It is now o<strong>ne of the most important oil export terminals<\/strong> in Iran.\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>operating base for three offshore fields of Iran,<\/strong> namely, <strong>Salman, Resalat and Reshadat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Infrastructure:\u00a0<\/strong>The Iranian Offshore Oil Company operates<strong> processing facilities, storage tanks, and a jetty on the island<\/strong> that handles crude oil exports. These facilities make the island an <strong>important hub for petroleum logistics and offshore oil operations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Also, <strong>Salman Field,<\/strong> located 144 kilometres south of Lavan Island, <strong>has one of the largest offshore installations in the Persian Gulf.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The United Arab Emirates secretly carried out military strikes on Lavan Island of Iran during the recent Middle East conflict. About Lavan Island Location: It is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz. It is strategically located 18 km south of Bandar Mogham (Hormozgan Province) in the Persian Gulf.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lavan-island\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lavan Island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11265],"class_list":["post-362853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-news18","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}