U.S., Iran trade strikes as Trump vows harder retaliation

Along the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz — a passage through which a fifth of the world's oil flows — the United States and Iran have exchanged fresh blows, each side calculating that force or the threat of it will bend the other toward the negotiating table. American strikes on Larak Island drew Iranian missile and drone salvos toward bases in Jordan and the UAE, all intercepted, yet the cycle of retaliation continues to tighten. Markets shuddered, soldiers' families learned their loved ones would not come home soon, and inside Iran, young people who once protested in city squares are