For six months, the United States and Iran have traded blows across the Persian Gulf, and on Saturday that exchange deepened — warships evading missiles, oil tankers disabled or sunk, and the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed to the commerce that powers much of the world. What began in February with coordinated American and Israeli strikes has settled into a grinding rhythm of retaliation, each cycle raising the cost for ordinary people far from the water — at fuel pumps, at wedding celebrations, in the calculations of governments watching their economies strain. The world's most critical oil
US and Iran escalate tit-for-tat strikes on ships amid six-month conflict
Iranian Red Crescent Society reported shrapnel from a US missile hit a wedding ceremony in Sirik on Tuesday, with Iran claiming at least four deaths including two children.