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In messages to NPR, Tehran residents describe largely deserted streets roamed by paramilitary officials and vigilantes. They say security forces are banning gatherings for Nowruz, the Persian new year, this week.(Image credit: Atta Kenare) Article Attribution | Read...

At the Emergency Hospital, dozens crowded around a thick book to check the names of the victims killed in an airstrike on a rehabilitation center. The U.N. says over a hundred people were killed.(Image credit: Fazelminallah Qazizai for NPR) Article Attribution | Read...

Attacks on gas facilities by Israel and Iran have escalated the war and impacted global markets. And, renowned union leader and labor rights advocate Cesar Chavez is accused of sexual abuse and rape.(Image credit: Oliver Contreras) Article Attribution | Read More at...

Iran struck Qatar's massive gas facility after Israel targeted Iran's gas field, putting global energy supplies at risk. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nate Swanson, former director for Iran at the National Security Council, about what President Trump understood about Iran before going to war. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will be the first U.S. ally to visit the White House since President Trump asked for help in sending ships to patrol the Strait of Hormuz.(Image credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

If the U.S. follows through on its threats to bomb the oil assets on Kharg Island, the war would likely escalate and oil prices would increase exponentially. (Image credit: Atta Kenare) Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

As Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi prepares for her first White House visit, President Donald Trump calls for Japan and other allies to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

NPR's Leila Fadel discusses what she was hoping to learn and what she found during her recent trip to Iraq amid the war with Iran that has engulfed the region. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

President Trump said that Israel acted alone when it struck the South Pars gas field in Iran. Trump threatened Iran to halt its attacks on Qatar's facilities, or face a "blow up" of their South Pars field.(Image credit: Oliver Contreras) Article Attribution | Read...

Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said last week: "With the outbreak of the crisis in the Middle East, the issue of energy prices has clearly become even more important, which is why, at European level, we are also calling for the urgent suspension of the...

Lawmakers pressed intelligence officials about the Iran war, and if the Islamic Republic had posed an imminent threat. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source