NPR News: 03-14-2026 9PM EDT

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is calling on other countries to help secure the Strait of Hormuz so that oil can be transported. Strait is only close to U. S. and Israeli ships and tankers. And here's Jane Araf has more. Passage and attacking hostile ones, but it doesn't end there. It's not just attacks on ships in the strait. I spoke with the owner of the sea safe Vishnu, a New Jersey tanker, around this week while in an Iraqi port, so far from the U. S. An Indian crew member was killed in that attack. And the owner, S. V. Anshan, told me that unmanned boats with explosives rammed the side of the vessel as it was loading with fuel. So it really serves as a warning to ship owners not to even think about going there. And Pierre is Jane and Raf. Yesterday the U. S. bombed Iran's Karaka Island, the primary terminal that handles the country's oil exports. A group representing Iran-backed militias has issued bounties for U. S. officials. This comes soon after the U. S. issued a reward for information on several prominent Iranian officials. And Pierre's Arizou Razvani. has more The Islamic resistance in Iraq is offering upwards of a hundred thousand dollars for information on the whereabouts of high-ranking US military and intelligence officials. That's according to a message posted in the group's television. The Islamic resistance in Iraq, which