The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blau. And I'm Jason Palmer.
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And our journey across Route 66 reaches Oklahoma.
But first,
America has hit 90 targets in a second day of strikes on Iran.
Iran returned in kind by hitting American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.
The US said its attacks were prompted by unjustified aggression against commercial shipping.
Three weeks into the ceasefire between America and Iran,
Donald Trump yesterday said it was over.
Oil prices have jumped, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has stalled.
All as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's six-day funeral continues.
With crowds chanting death to America and revenge.
Negotiations about a longer-term agreement were due to restart this weekend.
Now those talks and the prospect of peace seem ever more precarious.
There's a strong possibility that the strikes are going to continue,
both as part of a negotiation on the battlefield as well as at the table.
Nicholas Pelham, our Middle East correspondent, is currently in Baghdad.
At the same time,