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Overnight, the US and Iran exchanging strikes, threatening the fragile ceasefire.
A US official telling ABC News the US striking an Iranian ground control station as it prepared to launch a one-way attack drone believed to be a threat to US forces and commercial shipping in the street of Hermuz.
In addition to the strike, US forces also shot down four other one-way Iranian attack drones.
The official adding the action was defensive.
But overnight, Iran responded.
Video released by the Iranian military claims to show the regime targeting an American base in the region.
Kuwait saying its air defenses were intercepting hostile drones and missiles.
As the war with Iran drags into its 12th week, the president has made it clear he's in no rush to make a deal.
Emboldened by a string of GOP primary victories.
>> They thought they were going to outweight me.
You know, we'll outweight him.
He's got the midterms.
I don't care about the midterms.
The president's approval rating has plummeted as gas prices so sore.
Americans on average are paying $442 at the pump, up $148 since the war began.
>> Gas prices that are still high across the country.
People are paying more for travel.
Does that give you more urgency to make a deal?
Why doesn't it?
>> Well, I'll tell you the primary urgency, and I said this, it wasn't covered properly, but the primary urgency is that we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
But the Senate's top Republican with a different take, saying Americans will be voting on the economy.
>> We need to ensure that we succeed there.
Um, and then also at the same time prove that we can uh do two things at one time and and focus clearly on uh the economic issues that I think are going to be front and center for a lot of the American people when they vote.
Days after insisting the US and Iran were near a deal, President Trump now claims Iran is negotiating on fumes, rejecting the regime's demands to take control over the Strait of Hermuz in coordination with Oman.
>> Would you accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the strait?
And would they have to open it immediately or would you be open to that happening over a period of time?
>> No, the strait's going to be open to everybody.
And who would control it?
>> International waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it, but nobody's going to control it.
The president telling me Oman, a key US ally, needs to get in line, issuing this threat.
>> Oman will behave just like everybody else and we'll have to blow him up. They understand that.
>> And Iran responding to that threat from President Trump to Oman, a key US ally, calling it bullying and dangerous.
And just moments ago, US officials are confirming that Iran did try to launch a series of attacks targeting Kuwait.
The US says that all of those drones were intercepted. Michael.
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