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Is the US close to an all-out war with Iran again?
The US has now been bombing Iran for 10 consecutive days with Iran retaliating against US bases across the Middle East.
Both sides are targeting civilian infrastructure that millions of people rely on.
Bridges, electrical facilities, a railway station, a desalination plant, and even a city believed to host Iran's underground missile bases have been targeted by the US.
Iran retaliated with the attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait, home of the US Navy's fifth [music] fleet, and struck a power and water desalination plant in Kuwait, too.
The US is trying to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, that tiny but important waterway in the Persian Gulf, which about 20% of the world's oil once flowed through, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Iran attacked another tanker in the straight this week, [music] and commercial shipping is still stalled.
That means higher gas prices back home.
>> US gas prices jumped to $4 a gallon again on Monday, whereas a year ago the average national price was $3.14 a gallon.
>> To see prices reaching over $5 close to $6 is rough.
>> No one technically owns the straight of Hormuz, but Iran claimed sovereignty over it after it was attacked by Israel and the US in February.
Using its proximity as negotiating leverage with the US, at least 50 people were killed and hundreds injured in Iran in this latest round of US bombing.
Three US service members were killed over the weekend.
Two of them US Army soldiers at a base in Jordan.
This marks the first time US troops are killed from direct Iranian fire,
bringing the total death toll to
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