Aya Batraoui
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Now, this morning, Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it responded to that U.S.
attack on Bandar Abbas by targeting, quote, the American base from which that attack originated.
And Kuwait this morning says it intercepted drones.
So it appears Iran's attack was on U.S.
positions there.
Also, the Revolutionary Guard says it fired at an American commercial vessel trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz yesterday and forced it to turn around.
But Steve, as you said, all this is happening alongside an effort by both sides to permanently end the war.
What's happening there is that Israel just issued evacuation warnings for one of the country's biggest cities there, Tyre.
This displacement for Tyre in southern Lebanon really expands Israel's war, pushing it deeper into Lebanon.
NPR's Jane Aref and Joad Rizkalla were speaking with families fleeing Tyre near the main coastal road who told them they have no idea where they're going to sleep and that they had no choice but to flee because of Israel's deadly airstrikes on that city.
Now, there's already more than a million people displaced by Israel in this war in Lebanon, and people are sleeping on sidewalks in the capital, Beirut, with shelters overflowing.
Lebanon's health ministry says nearly 3,300 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in this war.
Hundreds of them are women and children and more than 100 medics and first responders.
And Israel says that more than 20 Israeli soldiers and several civilians have been killed by Hezbollah fire.
But Iran says there can be no deal with the U.S.
without that war in Lebanon also ending.
So Israel ending that war is going to be key.
You know, it's hard to say if a deal is imminent, but all indications are that Trump is pursuing a diplomatic solution with Iran right now, not more war.
That's what Gulf Arab states want as well, including mediators like Oman, which has long been a neutral, peaceful and trusted go between for Washington and Tehran.
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