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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. The Trump administration has signed a nuclear power agreement with Saudi Arabia that the kingdom says will enhance their cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The US Energy Department says it could lead Saudis to enrich their own fuel from nuclear reactors, which has US lawmakers worried that that could lead to a nuclear weapon, or at the very least, heighten tensions in the Middle East. President Trump is threatening to bomb one power plant or bridge in Iran for every projectile Iran launches at the Strait of Hormuz. This comes as Iran and the US continue attacks on each other's infrastructure for nearly two weeks straight. NPR's Emily Feng has more.

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Iran says the US has hit power plants and several bridges already in the last week and a half of daily strikes. And Iran has bombed water desalination plants and a gas plant in the Gulf in retaliation. Under the Geneva Convention, which the US is a signatory of, deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. The renewed hostilities between the US and Iran have slowed ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and vessel tracking data shows some ships making a U-turn in another key channel, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, after a Yemeni militant