Good evening. I'm William Brangham. Amna Nawaz and Jeff Bennett are away. On the news hour tonight, gas prices in the U.S. top $4 a gallon. With mounting pressure from the war with Iran, President Trump lashes out at allies for not helping reopen a key oil shipping route.

The Supreme Court sides with a therapist challenging a state ban on the discredited practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ children.

And some suspicious trades in prediction and financial markets regarding Trump administration policies raise questions about who's really benefiting. It's right for us to assume that there is a lot of insider trading that goes on on prediction markets, just as there's a lot of insider trading that goes on in the News Hour.

President Trump said tonight that the war with Iran will likely last another two to three weeks.

But the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz continues to be a problem

for the U.S. and the president again lashed out at allies for not doing more to help.

Iran's de facto blockade of that waterway has driven up the cost of oil worldwide and sent American

gas prices to their highest level in years.

Overnight, targets outside the ancient, historic Iranian city of Isfahan

were set ablaze by U.S. strikes, home to a large ammunition depot

in one of the country's main nuclear complexes, now a towering inferno.

President Trump posted this video to his social media, projecting U.S. strength before, hours

later, conveying frustration. The president said that nations that were upset by Iran's choking

of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the

world's oil normally flows, should take matters into their own hands. Go to the straight

and just take it, the president wrote. You have to start learning how to fight for yourself. Go get

your own oil. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today directed more blame on U.S. allies who have,

so far, refused to participate in this war.

This is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact, dramatically less

than most. So the world ought pay attention to be prepared to stand up. President Trump's

been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran. It's not just our problem set going forward. Iran has allowed some ships

to pass through the strait, including from China, India, and Malaysia. The U.S. claims up to 20

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