Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman.
The U.S.
and Israeli militaries are continuing to attack sites in Iran.
Israel is pushing deeper into Lebanon,
and it's now striking the suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Iran is attacking Israel,
but NPR's Aya Batrawi reports Iran is also firing on several other countries in the Persian Gulf region.
We're seeing these attacks on these countries because they host U.S.
troops and because they host U.S.
forces that are actively now at war with Iran and have made very clear from the assassination of Khamenei that this is about regime change.
This is not about diplomacy or trying to bring Iran back to the negotiating table when you take out its supreme leader.
This is about regime change and fomenting the kind of chaos that really is going to ricochet across the region,
as we're seeing.
NPR's Aya Batrawi reporting.
Shipping traffic remains stalled in the Strait of Hormuz.
That's the narrow waterway controlled by Iran.
And 20 percent of the world's crude oil goes through there,
as well as critical amounts of natural gas.
Countries such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates could be forced to reduce or even stop their oil output.
Qatar has already halted all its shipments of natural gas.