What to know about the Iran war:
- Several U.S. fighter jets at a Jordanian military base on Wednesday, sources tell CBS News.
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Iran's state media had previously said Tehran targeted U.S. assets across the region in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian oil tankers.
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- Yemen's Houthis seized the key Red Sea port of Mokha on Thursday, according to numerous reports.
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If confirmed, the move would make it easier for the Houthis to target ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial waterway for Saudi Arabian oil exports.
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- President Trump said Wednesday that Iran is desperate to affect the midterm elections and mused the conflict would end right afterward.
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"I think the war will end immediately after the election, because they can't hold out any longer," he told reporters.
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South Korea, Iran foreign ministers discuss Hormuz in call amid Trump pressure on Seoul
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Iran discussed the Strait of Hormuz in a phone call on Friday, Seoul said, days after confirming it was weighing a "contribution" to the waterway's security.
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President Trump has repeatedly pressured South Korea to provide help for the war in the Middle East, saying Seoul has rejected his request for assistance in securing the waterway that is crucial to global oil supplies.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun spoke by phone with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, at Tehran's request, "discussing the recent situation in the Middle East" and the Strait of Hormuz, the foreign ministry in Seoul said in a statement.
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Friday's announcement followed a warning from Tehran earlier in the week that any South Korean military contribution to the conflict would have "serious consequences."
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South Korea sent a fact-finding team to assess the situation in the strait and has repeatedly said it hasn't decided whether to deploy its military to Hormuz.
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At U.N. meeting, Yemen seeks international support in its conflict with Houthis
Yemen's special envoy to the United Nations called on support from the international community after the Iran-backed Houthi militant group seized control of the Red Sea port city of Mokha.
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"This renewed war should alarm us all," Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, warned at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.
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"It effectively marks the end of the relative calm that Yemen has experienced for over four years since the U.N.-brokered truce," Grundberg said.
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He called on the international community to address this "new and more dangerous phase – one whose consequences, if left unchecked, will not stay within Yemen's borders."
Yemen's U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Al-Saadi said a single Yemen state with a monopoly on weapons that has sovereignty throughout the country, which the government is seeking, is "a fundamental guarantee" for security for Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the region.
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He called on the Security Council to condemn the Houthis' military escalation and to implement measures "prohibiting the supply of arms, components, technology, and military expertise to the militia" which are fueling the conflict.
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Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdulaziz Alwasil said that the kingdom remains supportive of peace in Yemen but that it would "take all measures necessary to deter Houthi attacks."
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Alwasil warned that "the kingdom's commitment to de-escalation and to supporting a political solution must not be allowed to become an opportunity that this militia exploits to continue its attacks and to threaten the security of the kingdom and the region."
At the U.N. meeting, U.S. Minister Counselor Jenifer Neidhart warned that those who enable the escalation of Houthi attacks "bear responsibility for its consequences."
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Neidhart called for stronger implementation of U.N. sanctions against the militants to cut off "the resources that sustain their acts of terrorism."
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Diesel prices nearing $6 a gallon for the first time ever
Diesel prices in the U.S. are barreling toward a painful new milestone for the transportation industry: $6 a gallon, a surge experts said is likely to have ripple effects for consumers as businesses pass on their higher energy costs.
The national average for a gallon of diesel on Thursday rose to almost $5.98, up 61% from $3.71 a year ago, according to data from AAA.
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Diesel is widely used in trucking and rail, affecting the cost of transporting goods around the U.S., as well as in construction and farming.
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Diesel has already surpassed $6, according to GasBuddy, which tracks changes in gas prices in real time.
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Hezbollah underground infrastructure destroyed in southern Lebanon, Israel says
Israel said Thursday it completed the demolition of key underground infrastructure built by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group on the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon.
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"This is strategic terrorist infrastructure that was built over two decades, with Iranian funding and planning," said a joint statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, adding its destruction "completes the achievement of operational control over the Ali al-Taher ridge -- above and below ground."
The network of tunnels included eight underground routes with a combined route of 5,400 meters and included dozens of explosive drones, machine guns, anti-tank missiles and hundreds of mines, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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The Israeli army said it will continue to operate in its so-called "Security Zone" in southern Lebanon "in order to clear the area and prevent the Hezbollah terrorist organization from carrying out terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
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As part of the trilateral agreement between Lebanon, Israel and the U.S. signed in June, Israel is supposed to hand over security in the zone to the Lebanese army.
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Israel has so far resisted doing so, saying it will only hand over security once Hezbollah surrenders all of its weapons and territory.
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Iran destroys U.S. sea drone in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC says
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday its navy targeted a U.S. unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
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"The Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted a Saildrone Explorer-type unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz area," they said in a statement carried by their Sepah news outlet under the headline "Destruction of a US Saildrone in the Strait of Hormuz."
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The ideological arm of the Iranian military added the sea drone had been used in the region by the U.S. Fifth Fleet stationed in Bahrain.
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Washington has previously used Saildrone Explorer USVs to gather data and images in the Gulf.
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The sea drones are driven by solar and wind energy and can be deployed on missions in the ocean for up to one year.
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This isn't the first time Iran has seized a U.S. Saildrone Explorer.
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In September 2022, Iran
, but then later released them at the United States' request.
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Iran on Wednesday said it captured an unmanned U.S. submarine drone, providing video of the drone being pulled out of the water.
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The U.S. military said one of its underwater drones had "malfunctioned."
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House Democrats criticize Trump over war outside RNC midterm convention
Four prominent House Democrats criticized President Trump's war with Iran in a press conference outside the Republican's midterm convention on Thursday.
Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, called the war "a quagmire" that has resulted in the deaths of 18 service members and cost American taxpayers billions of dollars.
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"Here we are in another endless quagmire that's costing Americans hundreds of billions of dollars, and working class kids do the fighting and dying where the elite and the privileged bang their war drums and act tough" Crow said.
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"I have had enough.
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Americans have had enough.
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…and 250 more, not listed.
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