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The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war.
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00:00The United States has launched a new round of airstrikes targeting Iran.
00:05The U.S. Military Central Command says it hit some 90 targets in Iran today.
00:11Now, that includes sites at an airport as well as missile launchers.
00:16That's according to black and white footage released by the U.S. Military Central Command.
00:20Meanwhile, in Iran, they say at least one person has been killed, a firefighter who was responding to a strike
00:26at an airport in Aranshar.
00:28They also say that bridges apparently were targeted again for the first time in the war since the ceasefire has
00:35been put in place.
00:36U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to begin targeting infrastructure in Iran over its continued attacks on ships trying
00:43to go through the Strait of Hormuz through a route around Oman to the south.
00:49Tehran doesn't like that.
00:50It wants to control the Strait of Hormuz and decide what ships go through, potentially even charging fees, upending decades
00:57of global understanding about the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which about a fifth of all oil and
01:04natural gas traded once passed.
01:06Missile alert sirens went off in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar this morning as Iran retaliated.
01:13There's no word on if there's any damage in those Gulf countries, but it just shows how everything is escalating.
01:20And this interim deal to try to end the war now looks increasingly at risk as this crossfire continues.
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