Trump was waiting for FIFA World Cup to end, US' next Iran war phase decoded

The Iran–US war has officially left the shadows and moved into open, deadly confrontation. In this Point Blank episode, Shishir Gupta breaks down a brutal new phase in which three US troops are killed in a Jordan airbase strike, another dies in Iraq, and the total American death toll climbs even as Iran stays silent about its own casualties. From the digital MOU dispute over “Iranian arrangements” in the Strait of Hormuz to a tit‑for‑tat campaign of missile strikes on Gulf bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, we track how a fight over shipping corridors has turned into a region‑wide escalatory ladder. INTERNATIONAL NEWS