What to know
- As the war with Iran heads toward a third week, Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, gave his first statement on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, saying his country “will not give up on avenging the blood of martyrs.”
- Oil prices soared this morning over uncertainty as the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked while the International Energy Agency announced Wednesday that member countries had agreed to release 400 million gallons of emergency oil reserves.
- The Trump administration has continued to offer confusing details about when the U.S. plans to pull out of the operation. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump referred to the military strikes as an “excursion” despite having called it a war numerous times.
- Trump told reporters Wednesday that “I don’t know about it,” referring to a preliminary investigation by the Pentagon finding that U.S. forces were responsible for a deadly missile strike on a school in Iran.