Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
President Trump says U.S.
forces have destroyed Iranian military targets on Harg Island,
a small landmass in the Persian Gulf that serves as Iran's primary oil export terminal.
Nicholas Mulder is an assistant professor of modern European history at Cornell University.
He says it's unclear how targeting that island might affect the current conflict.
Khark Island has not been attacked so far because it's fairly certain that if that were to happen,
Iran would retaliate,
as it already has been doing against a neighboring Gulf country's oil infrastructure.
On top of that,
even if there were to be a landing and the exports through Khark Island were to be stopped,
then there would still be the question of whether that actually helps the current energy crisis.
And if anything, it would take even more barrels of oil off the market.
President Trump warns Iran that its oil infrastructure on the island could be targeted next
if Tehran continues.
interfering with ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranian ambassador to India says Tehran is now allowing some Indian vessels to pass through the shipping channel.
A federal judge has put the brakes on a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve.
NPR Scott Horsley reports the judge blocked the Justice Department's subpoenas of the central bank,
calling it an improper campaign of harassment.