Oliver Conway
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
We're recording this at Fourteen Hours GMT on Monday, the thirty first of August.
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The war between the US and Iran has been relatively quiet for the past month as the Americans switched from military to economic pressure to try to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
But on Sunday, fighting resumed as the US hit what it described as Iranian mine launches on Larak Island in the Strait.
Iranian state media says two people were killed.
In response, Iran said it had launched attacks on US bases in Jordan and the UAE.
We got the details from our global affairs reporter, Sebastian Usher.
Larak Island is one of these small islands Mass Red Hormuz that Iran uses both to monitor and to threaten ships that might still be using it down routes that Iran doesn't allow them to go.
So that's why it's a target for the US, again, specifically to do with the threat that it poses, the military threat.
So rather than going for the economic aspect of it as
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