About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war with Iran.

Follow NBC News for live updates on the latest about the war with Iran, where the U.S. launched bunker buster bombs, while Israel struck Lebanon.

Even as Iran confronts the gravest threat to its regime yet, it is signaling a willingness to prolong its conflict with the United States and Israel in a bid to finally reshape the region in its favor.

Joe Kent has said that Charlie Kirk "advocated heavily against a war with Iran" before his death.

Iran escalated strikes on energy sites in neighboring Gulf states, including a key facility in Qatar, in response to an Israeli attack on South Pa

The president of Iran's soccer federation said his country would "boycott the United States, but not the World Cup" as it attempts to move its group stage matches south of the border to Mexico. Mehdi Taj drew the distinction while speaking to Iran's Fars news agency on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump's warning that Iran should skip the World Cup "for their own life and safety.

Iran will "boycott the United States, but not the World Cup," the president of the country's football federation said Wednesday, in quotes reported by Iran's Fars news agency.

Trump jokingly referred to the initial strikes on Iran to the attack on Pearl Harbor while seated next to Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

The U.S. military's request for $200 billion in additional funding for the Iran war met with stiff opposition in ​the U.S. Congress on Thursday, as Democrats and even some Republicans questioned the need for the money after large defense ‌appropriations last year.