Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said in televised remarks Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz — the shipping route for a fifth of the world’s oil supply — should remain closed. He also said that Iran will avenge the blood of its martyrs, including the 165 people, most of them children, killed in the Minab school attack.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd checks in with CNN’s Nic Robertson, international diplomatic editor on the ground in Kuwait, about the latest developments in the region.
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