Iran strikes back after US bombs an oil-critical Iranian island as Mideast war enters third week

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad and debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its third week Saturday. Associated Press images showed a column of smoke rising over the embassy compound in the Iraqi capital and a fire in the Fujairah port in the UAE that broke out after what authorities said was a drone interception.
44% : He also sought to address concerns about the bottling of the Strait of Hormuz, telling reporters: "We have been dealing with it and don't need to worry about it." ___ Mednick reported from Tel Aviv, Israel; Toropin reported from Washington and Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.
43% : " US says 15,000 targets struck in Iran since the start of the war Israel earlier announced another wave of strikes in Iran targeting infrastructure, and said its air force had hit more than 200 targets in the last 24 hours, including missile launchers, defense systems and weapons production sites.
39% : Iran has continued to launch widespread missile and drone attacks on Israel and neighboring Gulf Arab states, and effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's traded oil passes, even as U.S. and Israeli warplanes pummel military and other targets across Iran.
34% : The humanitarian crisis in Lebanon deepened, with nearly 800 people killed and 850,000 displaced as Israel launched waves of strikes against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and warned there would be no let up.

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