War with Iran: Day 17

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Welcome to Nightline, this is a special edition, War of the Ron.

I'm Byron Pitts.

On this episode, securing the straight,

President Trump's growing pressure on allies to help protect the critical strider for moves.

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and it's not going to be able to be used very long.

As oil prices soar, impacting gas here at home,

what other essentials could be caught in the crosshairs.

First is going to be food via fertilizer.

The second is going to be energy, so everything that requires energy in your life.

Plus, the US has now hit more than 7,000 targets in Iran,

including 30 mind-laying ships.

And Iran striking back, hitting a fuel tank near the Dubai airport.

While the conflict in Iran continues to rage on,

we will shift focus each day to this single topic.

War of the Ron, Nightline's special coverage continues.

Tonight is day 17.

Stay with us after the break.

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The conflict in the Middle East now, when it's

third week with a seemingly no-end in sight,

with the price of oil soaring.

President Trump is calling on other countries to help secure

the strider for moves.

The critical channel, one-fifth of the world's oil travels through.

Here's ABC's Chief International Correspondent, James Longman.

Iran's still causing chaos across the region tonight.

A massive explosion as a drone slammed into this hotel and Baghdad.

Flames shooting out of the building and video circulating online.

And near the US Embassy.

Video showing the moment air defense systems

shot down a rocket flying nearby.

Tonight, President Trump is blasting some key US allies

for refusing to answer his new call for help.

In reopening the critical strait of hormones.

That's more than two weeks after he launched the war in Iran without those allies.

We don't need anybody.

We're the strongest nation in the world.

We have the strongest military by far in the world.

We don't need them.

Late today, the president claimed the UK was unwilling to help in the beginning.

I was very surprised with the United Kingdom.

Because the United Kingdom, two weeks ago,

I said, what did you send some ships over?

And he really didn't want to do it.

I said, you don't want to do it.

We've been with you.

President Trump said today the UK is now offering aircraft carriers

but that he told them it's too late.

He said, we're going to send over two aircraft carriers.

I said, I don't want them anymore.

I don't want them after we win.

I want them before we start.

I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won.

Tonight, the British Prime Minister says the concern is a wider war.

We will not be drawn into the wider war.

And tonight, Germany is refusing to send help for the Strait of Hormuz,

saying, quote, it's not our war.

We can't be at every place to support a war which we didn't start it.

While questioning the loyalty of some allies,

late today, the president marvelled in the Oval Office

at his model of an American B2 bomber.

And if these gorgeous B2 bombers give me that bomber,

and let me just hug that little sucker,

give me that bomber over there.

Like you know immediately which one.

This looks small, but in person, it's very big.

It's the only plate capable of carrying a 200,000 pound bomb.

So I don't know how to do it.

This is very sleek and nice, but it carries a lot of weapons.

And there's a lot of bombs.

20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait.

What's the danger of Iranian attacks keeping most from getting through?

Global oil prices are hovering around $100 a barrel today.

Gas prices in the US have risen more than 80 cents

since the start of the war.

And tonight the president says some countries are sending help,

but he wouldn't say who.

Numerous countries have told me they're on the way.

Some are very enthusiastic about it and some are.

The president says the US has struck 7,000 targets so far in Iran

and destroyed 100 Iranian naval ships,

including all 30 vessels that lay underwater mines.

The president is tonight saying he's not sure who is leading Iran,

saying he doesn't know if the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Hamani is alive or dead

and of other potential leaders.

Now they think maybe the sun is gone.

They're all gone.

My biggest problem is I have no idea who we're talking to

because nobody ever heard of it.

It is people. They're all dead.

And tonight the Pentagon is revealing 200 American troops have been wounded so far in this war.

At least 13 US service members killed.

And tonight tributes for the six American service members

who died when their refueling plane crashed in Western Iraq.

The youngest 28-year-old technical sergeant, Tyler Simmons, of Columbus, Ohio,

seen here just months ago training on the same type of aircraft that went down,

a KC-135.

His mother says she spoke to her son the day before he died.

We actually had beautiful conversation.

I was like, what's Tyler? How are you?

He said, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.

He just wanted to do amazing things because he's an amazing man.

33-year-old Major John Alex Klinner from Auburn, Alabama had just been promoted.

The married father of three had seven-month-old twins.

31-year-old Captain Ariana Savino of Covington, Washington,

34-year-old technical sergeant Ashley Pruitt of Bardstown, Kentucky,

remembered as a devout wife and mother, leaving a three-year-old daughter.

30-year-old Captain Curtis Angst of Wilmington, Ohio,

and 38-year-old Captain Seth Covell of Moorsville, Indiana.

Covell's wife tonight saying he was exceptional in everything he did.

And back in the Oval Office late today, President Trump made news.

When he suggested a form of president he's been speaking with,

wishes he had done to Iran, what Trump has done.

And he said, I wish I did what you did.

Couldn't have done it. Other presidents,

somebody should have done it. 47 years this went on.

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the Strider for Moons. We take a deeper look about why this waterway could impact your kitchen table.

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We turn now to take a deeper look at the essential waterway in the Persian Gulf.

The Strider for Moons might be narrow and only as long as the island of Puerto Rico.

But its importance has captured much of the world's attention.

As Iran maintains a chokehold on it and the crucial commodities that travel through it.

Here's ABC's Marcus Moore.

That message broadcasts across these waters in the Persian Gulf.

Amanasana to calm the waves that normally glide from passing ships here.

Almost all traffic through the state of her moves is ground to a halt.

And while this water remains peaceful, parts of the region it commands are on fire.

Since this war began at least 16 ships have come under attack in these waters near the

straight of her moves.

One of those strikes under a moonlit sky just off the coast of Iraq.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard claims to have struck the safe sea Vishnu

seen here in video circulating online.

Tucked in their life jackets and floating in murky water,

the crew watched as flames engulf the US-owned vessel they had escaped from only moments prior.

Iran flexing its muscle, launching projectiles and planting lines.

They're exerting control over this key route, targeting ships that have passed through the narrow

waterway. Iran vows to strike any ship linked to the US, Israel, or their allies that passes through

here. That threat and a spate of attacks have effectively shut down the strait to the world,

the ripple effect staggering and far reaching.

About a fifth of the world's energy passes through the strait of her moves, and because

it's effectively closed, Qatar took the extraordinary step of shutting down gas production here,

and for years leaders across the region have warned that a conflict involving Iran would threaten

the strait, and now those fears have become reality.

President Trump now urging other nations to help patrol the strait and keep the

vital waterway open for international trade.

We're the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world.

We don't need them, but it's interesting. We get less than 1% of our oil from the strait,

and some countries get much more Japan, gets 95%, China gets 90%, many of the Europeans get

quite a bit. South Korea gets 35%, so we want them to come and help us with the strait.

So far, the United Nations declining to weigh in.

The impact of a restriction or closure of the state of her moves cannot be underestimated

and the impact that will have around the world, and it is already having.

But we're not going to be feeding the speculation. The Secretary General will continue to work

discreetly on this because, frankly, the stakes are too high.

I think the major concern is for countries who felt that they were, perhaps, geographically

separated and didn't realize just how intricate and interconnected the logistical system of the world is today.

Al-Anut Al-Tani is a Doha native and fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs.

She's an emerging voice on the state of the region today and says this is a pivotal moment.

As someone who is from this part of the world, from Qatar,

can you give me a sense of how unprecedented is this moment that we are in?

It's been one of the safest regions in the world for many, many years.

And so what's unprecedented for us to get dragged into this conflict and find, at this stage,

I think over 3,000 missiles, slash drones, loved in our direction.

The Gulf Cooperation Council is made up of six Gulf countries.

For all of them, the state of Hormuz is a lifeline for their economies.

Qatar and UAE move their liquefied natural gas, Kuwait, it's crude oil.

Yet it is not just the gas prices rising in the U.S. and elsewhere, but everyday commodities

now left in limbo.

First is going to be food via fertilizer.

The second is going to be energy, so everything that requires energy in your life.

And the third is going to be semiconductors via Taiwan.

Those three things are going to be the major effects that everyone is going to feel right away.

Much of that fertilizer that flows through the strait is used to grow crops in Asia.

This is real on the ground, this is human beings.

They're going to lose access to vital essential resources that they rely on

for their living and for their survival, and we just don't want to see that.

The escalating war is testing a fragile supply chain.

It's the reason leaders in the goal for calling for an immediate end to the fighting.

As the conflict enters its third week, it seems no area is immune from its turbulence.

With so much at stake, those in the region and beyond hope for better days ahead.

Our thanks to Marcus. Join us tomorrow for another special edition of Nightline, war with Iran.

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