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The White House says President Trump will address the nation this evening about the war in Iran.
This comes after Trump reversed course.
He originally demanded that Iran surrender unconditionally.
Now he's saying the U.S.
Could end the war in two to three weeks.
Trump had demanded that Iran surrender total control of the Strait of Hormuz,
or he would bomb its electricity facilities and wreck all its plants to make drinking water.
NPR's Mara Eliasson says if Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz, it controls worldwide oil shipping and the cost of fuel.
The Strait is really important.
About one-fifth of the world's oil passes through it.
Iran does have a stranglehold on global markets now.
So even if Donald Trump is now trying to argue that the $4 a gallon of gas does n't affect us,
it actually does because oil prices are set globally.
NPR's Mara Liason reporting.
Lebanon's health ministry says at least seven people
have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's Mediterranean coast.
Israel's been attacking Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
They have fired rockets across the border into Israel.
NPR's Lorne Freyer reports from Beirut.