NPR News: 04-05-2026 5PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. |
| 0:04.9 | Iran and the U.S. traded heated rhetoric on social media today after President Trump used vulgar language, threatening to target more of Iran's infrastructure if it didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday. |
| 0:18.5 | NPR's Deep Harvaz has more. |
| 0:20.7 | Iran is hitting back after President Trump |
| 0:22.7 | posted an expletive-laden message on social media, ordering Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:28.3 | If they don't comply, he vowed to destroy more of Iran's bridges and power plants. |
| 0:32.8 | The official ex-account for Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations responded that |
| 0:38.1 | Trump, quote, seeks to drag the region into an endless war. It added that his threat to target |
| 0:43.9 | civilian infrastructure, showed an intent to commit a war crime, and urged immediate |
| 0:48.7 | international intervention. Mejdi Tabataboi, deputy for communications and information in Iranian President Masoud Pazeshkian's office, posted on X that President Trump had, quote, resorted to obscenities and nonsense out of sheer desperation and anger. |
| 1:03.9 | He went on to use similarly insulting language, saying that the street would open when Iran had been compensated for the cost of this war. |
| 1:11.0 | Di Parvas, NPR News, Vaughn, Turkey. And as the street would open when Iran had been compensated for the cost of this war. Di Parvas, NPR News, Vaughan Turkey. |
| 1:14.1 | And as the street remains largely closed, that's stranding oil tankers and pushing up the price of crude oil and gasoline. |
| 1:21.6 | AAA says the average price of a gallon of gas nationwide is now $4.11. |
| 1:27.4 | President Trump says gas prices will immediately go down |
| 1:30.3 | once the war with Iran ends. But David Goldwyn, former energy envoy for the State Department and |
| 1:36.2 | Assistant Secretary of Energy says that won't happen. Oil is a globally priced commodity. So even |
| 1:41.5 | though we won't have a physical shortage here because we've got Canada for heavy oil and we produce our own, the reality is that the price is global and there's a |
| 1:48.9 | real physical shortage. And so we don't escape that price impact and that translates to what it |
| 1:54.4 | costs a refiner to buy the crude and therefore what you pay for gasoline at the pump. So we are |
| 1:59.3 | non-immune from that. |
| 2:03.0 | Speaking there to NPR's weekend edition, |
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