00:01Attacks are again shaking the Middle East today.
00:04This comes after the United States claimed that Iran smashed a drone into an Apache attack helicopter,
00:10causing it to crash off the coast of Oman.
00:13Now, this morning, the U.S. military had launched strikes across southern Iran.
00:18Iranian state media announced that there had been blasts in Qashem Island
00:23and near Bandar Abbas and other sites in the country,
00:27near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf
00:30that Iran has maintained a chokehold over for months now, disrupting global energy supplies.
00:36In retaliation, Iran has launched attacks targeting the island nation of Bahrain
00:41as well as the small Mideast nation of Kuwait.
00:44Air defense systems were heard going off in both of those countries,
00:47and it's unclear what damage has been done.
00:50Meanwhile, Iran has also claimed an attack targeting Jordan.
00:53That kingdom near Israel had seen attacks targeting it in the Iran war.
01:00This would be the first since the April ceasefire took effect.
01:03And it also underlines both Jordan's continued hosting of American aircraft
01:08as well as that kingdom's precarious position between Israel and Iran
01:12as those two sides had been attacking each other earlier this week as well.
01:17All this put together again calls into question efforts to try to reach a more permanent ceasefire
01:22in the Iran war that started all the way back in February.
01:27Meanwhile, it just remains unclear if there will be more retaliation, more attacks in the Middle East,
01:32and all this is putting new pressure on those talks which so far haven't had any major results.
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