Iran conflict escalates: new strikes, US aircraft crash, oil spike

War in the Middle East is expanding. Iran's supreme leader dead. Retaliatory strikes underway and now a scramble to decide who runs Iran next

Also, oil prices are surging. Ships are halting in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran is warning tankers to stay out

And a deadly shooting outside a bar in Austin. Police now looking at whether the gunman was motivated by the Iran strikes and whether this could be terrorism

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These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News. Good morning, I'm Craig Grelly. This morning, the war in the Middle East is expanding after

American and Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend killed the country's supreme leader

We expect an update later today from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane

Here's the latest. Kuwait's Ministry of Defense says several U.S. military aircraft

crashed inside its borders this morning, but, quote, all crews survived. At least one of the crashes was caught on camera

Video appears to show a pilot ejecting before impact. Another clip shows Kuwaitis surrounding a pilot who had ejected while waiting for authorities

It is not clear whether the videos show the same incident, But U.S. Central Command says three U.S. fighter jets were shot down by Kuwait in a friendly fire incident

They say it was a mistake during active combat. Iranian state television claims Iran targeted at least one of the U.S. aircraft that went down

So far, three American service members have been killed, and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. attacks on Iran

President Donald Trump said there are likely to be more losses in the coming weeks

When asked by NBC News why he ordered the strike, Trump said it was very simple

saying Iran, quote, wasn't willing to say they will not have a nuclear weapon

He says the war with Iran could take four weeks or less. Iran's ambassador to the U.N.'s nuclear agency says U.S. and Israeli airstrikes

targeted the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, a site the U.S. bombed last June during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel

After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons

And we sought repeatedly to make a deal. We tried. They wanted to do it

They didn't want to do it. Again, they wanted to do it. They didn't want to do it

They didn't know what was happening. They just wanted to practice evil But Iran refused just as it has for decades and decades They rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions

and we can't take it anymore. In a social media post Sunday night

the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said Tehran will not negotiate with the

United States. The conflict is also spreading beyond Iran. Israel struck dozens of targets

in Beirut and southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launched missiles and drones toward Israel

overnight, calling it retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader. Lebanon's health ministry says those strikes killed at least 31 people and wounded 149 others

In a related topic, we're already seeing the economic fallout. Oil prices are spiking after the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran's retaliation in the

Strait of Hormuz. U.S. crude jumped roughly 12% in early trading Sunday night

Brent crude oil surged even more, up by 14%, pushing prices near $80 a barrel

That's an $8 move in a matter of hours. Stock futures are lower this morning ahead of the opening bell

Dow futures are down more than 500 points. S&P and Nasdaq futures are both off by about 1%

The flashpoint right now is the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries more than 20 percent of the world's oil supply

Missiles and explosives have struck at least two vessels near the strait

Shipping firms are now diverting tankers. Dozens of ships are anchored outside the passage rather than risk entering

And overnight, the conflict widened. Saudi Arabia says an Iranian drone struck an oil storage facility at the Ras Tanurah Refinery

one of the kingdom's major export hubs. Operations were halted as a precaution after a small fire broke out

Officials say the fire was brought under control. Iran has warned ships not to pass through the strait

If traffic slows or stops, energy ysts say prices could rise quickly

and that would show up at American gas stations within days. Every dollar move in crude typically adds about two and a half cents to a gallon of gasoline

At current levels, that could mean a 20-cent jump if this holds

There is mounting outrage this morning over the apparent strike on a girls' elementary school in southern Iran

Video from Manab shows rescue workers and families searching through rubble, backpacks and schoolbooks scattered amid collapsed walls and smoke

Iranian officials say the missile hit the Shahara Tayyabah girls school on Saturday morning at the start of the school week as children were in class State media reports say at least 175 people most of them believed to be young schoolgirls were killed Though exact

figures are still coming in and independent verification remains limited. Iran has condemned

the strike as an atrocity. The head of Iran's Red Crescent called the scale of the killings

unmatched. Even in recent conflicts, writing on X, no such crime has ever taken place in history to

date, not even in Gaza. UNESCO, the U.N. Education Agency, said in a statement, the killing of

pupils in a place dedicated to learning constitutes a grave violation of the protection afforded to

schools under international humanitarian law. Nobel laureate Malal Youssef Azai called the

deaths unconscionable and urged the protection of civilians under the law. U.S. Central Command

said in a statement that it is aware of reports of civilian harm and is reviewing them, but so far

has not confirmed responsibility. The Israeli military says it's not aware of strikes in that

specific area. Iran has now set its succession plan in motion after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was

killed in the strikes. Iran invoked Article 111 of its constitution and installed a temporary

three-member leadership council. President Masoud Pazeshkian, who reappeared on Iranian state television Sunday after ABC reported he was also targeted in Saturday's strikes

has joined the Interim Council. The other members are the head of the Iran Judiciary

and a senior cleric. Israel's military says 40 Iranian commanders died in Saturday's attacks

including the Armed Forces Chief of Staff. Under Iran's constitution, the 88-member

Assembly of Experts must select a new supreme leader in the shortest possible time. The loss

of senior commanders could shift additional influence to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Corps, which has long served as a system's power center. From exile in Paris, Iranian opposition

figure Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called the strikes a humanitarian intervention and said

Iranians now have a chance to reclaim their country. He told CBS News he wants to help lead

a transition to democracy, not restore the monarchy. This morning, police in Austin, Texas

are investigating whether the man who opened fire outside a bar early Sunday had any connection

to the weekend strikes on Iran. The shooting left two people dead and 14 others injured

Authorities have identified the suspect as 53-year-old Andiaga Junia, a U.S. citizen

originally from Senegal Police say Junia was wearing clothing displaying an Iranian flag and the phrase property of Allah The shooting happened outside Buford backyard beer garden in Austin Entertainment District

just a few miles from the University of Texas. Investigators say Junior drove past the bar

multiple times before stopping and firing from his SUV into a crowd on the patio. Police say he

then exited the vehicle with a rifle and continued shooting along the street. Officers responded and

shot him. He died at the scene. The FBI says the motive remains under investigation and that

terrorism has not been ruled out. NBC News reports that sources close to the investigation

say Junia had a history of mental illness. Finally this morning, call it a course correction

NASA is revamping its plan to return astronauts to the moon. Administrator Jared Isaacman says

the updated architecture targets a lunar landing in 2028 with at least one surface mission every

year after that. The new plan follows a series of technical setbacks. Earlier this year, hydrogen

fuel leaks and just last week helium flow issues forced NASA to roll the Artemis 2 rocket off the

pad and back into the hangar at Cape Canaveral for repairs. Artemis 2, a mission that will send

and four astronauts around the moon is now targeting a launch no earlier than April

Under the revised strategy, NASA will insert an additional mission before a lunar landing

In 2027, two astronauts would fly in an Orion capsule as a practice run

testing systems and operations ahead of a crewed moon landing. Isaacman says the goal is a faster, more reliable cadence

modeled after the Apollo program, which landed a dozen astronauts on the moon

between 1969 and 1972. Should be interesting to watch, that's for sure. All right, before we head

out, here's what we're tracking today. This morning, President Trump will award the Medal of Honor to

three U.S. Army soldiers, two posthumously, for actions in World War II and Vietnam. At 12.15

Eastern, the class action trial against Elon Musk gets underway. He's accused of making misleading

statements that depressed Twitter's stock price before his purchase. It's expected to last two

to three weeks. Later this afternoon, First Lady Melania Trump will preside over a meeting of the

UN Security Council, a first at the United Nations. Less ranting, more reading. Get smarter, faster

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Unbiased Updates for this Monday. We'll see you back here tomorrow. For all of us here at Radio News. I'm Craig DeGrelli. Have a great day