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Persian Gulf allies of the U.S. are warning of escalating repercussions after Israel's attack on Iran's South Pars gas field.

Qatar says it shares the underwater field and the attack is a threat to both the environment and to global energy security.

Energy surprises are skyrocketing around the

world. The U.S. is facing the steepest gasoline prices in two and a half years at 384 a gallon.

President Trump is temporarily lifting the Jones Act as his administration attempts to lower gas prices.

NPR's deepest shiverom reports the law

limits domestic shipping routes to just U.S. vessels. Trump announced a 60-day pause on the Jones Act.

That means domestic shipping routes can now be utilized by ships built and operated outside the U.S.

The decision comes as gas prices have shot up in the aftermath of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran.

High prices remain a top of mind concerned for voters in the midterm elections later this year,

which are expected to be close in determining control of Congress.

Deep Sivaram, NPR News, the White House.

In the skies across the Middle East, cheap drones are shaping the warfare of

the 21st century, as NPR's Kat-Lonsdorf reports. Unmanned drones mean military superpowers like the

U.S. no longer automatically control the skies. But it's also about money. Iran has fired more

than a thousand one-way attack drone since the war began.

U.S. defense systems stationed throughout the region have taken out a majority of them.

A typical Iranian Shahid attack drone is relatively cheap, tens of thousands of dollars.

The U.S. missiles that intercept them cost millions, something Kelly Griko, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, points out, is unsustainable.

That type of cost exchange favors the Iranians over the long term.

And the U.S. may run out of interceptors before Iran runs out of drones, something U.S. officials who were not authorized to speak publicly have told NPR they're concerned about as the war drags on.

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