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Persian Gulf allies of the U.S. are warning of escalating repercussions after Israel's attack on Iran's South Par's gas field.
Qatar says it shares the underwater field and the attack is a threat to both the environment and to global energy security.
Meanwhile, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says he does not believe the war in Iran can entirely eliminate that nation's nuclear program.
NPR's Jeff Brinkfield.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says Iran's nuclear program has been heavily damaged by repeated strikes.
But speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C., he said he expects it will survive the current conflict in some form.
That's because the program isn't just located at Iran's main nuclear sites, he says.
It's also scattered across universities, laboratories, and industrial facilities throughout the country.
When the current war ends, he predicts,
Grossi says his agency is ready to aid negotiations and it's ready to restart nuclear inspections when the fighting stops.
Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
A congressional panel heard today that the FBI may be purchasing commercially available data to track Americans' locations.
NPR's Jude Jaffe Block has more.
Back in 2023, then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress the FBI was no longer purchasing commercial databases that include location data from Internet advertising.
At this hearing, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon asked current FBI Director Cash Patel
if he could also commit to not purchasing Americans' location data.
Patel did not.
We do purchase commercially available information that's consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Wyden says data purchases without a warrant are an end run around the Fourth Amendment,