Well before the U.S. bombing started, President Trump knew there was a chance Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes. He decided to go to war anyway. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/46ZfBbx

Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology to aid Tehran’s targeting of U.S. forces in the region, people familiar with the matter said. Read more: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-is-sharing-satellite-imagery-and-drone-technology-with-iran-0dd95e49?mod=WhatsApp

With nowhere else to go, he was left to hide out in a tent in the woods. They found him anyway. Israel is hunting down its targets, one by one. Read our exclusive: https://on.wsj.com/4rEwTlF

At the start of the war on Iran, Israel and the U.S. said they were paving the way for Iranians to rise up and topple their government. Many Iranians cheered on the offensive as a last resort to overthrow rulers who killed thousands of protesters in January. Now, they are grappling with the possibility that the war will end with them living under the same authoritarian rule and crushing international sanctions, but in devastated cities with an aggrieved government that has vowed to take an even harder line against dissent. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4bbedoI

St Andrews may be the most American university in the U.K. “You think you’re coming to get this Scottish or international experience, and there’s just so many Americans.” Read more: https://on.wsj.com/46ZviiV

The U.S. Marine Corps unit expected to arrive in the Middle East next week could help seize one or more of the strategic islands in the Strait of Hormuz to counter Iranian attacks on shipping. Read more: https://www.wsj.com/world/iran-war-us-marines-strait-of-hormuz-b1d7c249?mod=WhatsApp

Iranians say security forces are using fear to keep a tight grip on the streets. Armed men ride around on motorcycles brandishing their weapons to intimidate people, residents say, particularly at night, when city dwellers rarely leave their homes. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4bNNbDW

People who eat around nine servings a day of ultraprocessed foods like chips and doughnuts have about a 67% higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and dying from heart disease compared with those who eat about one serving a day, according to a new study. The risks rose with each additional serving a person ate, according to the study published in JACC: Advances, a journal of the American College of Cardiology. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4rBPMpg

At 10:05 p.m. on Wednesday, President Trump unleashed a fiery post on social media, warning Iran that the U.S. would “massively blow up” its South Pars gas field if Tehran continued to retaliate against energy infrastructure in the Middle East. On Tuesday, he slammed the NATO alliance as “a one way street,” raising fears in world capitals that he might attempt to withdraw from it. And he tore into the media last week as “truly sick and demented people” over headlines about the war that he didn’t like. The commander in chief has used his favorite platform—Truth Social—to cajole allies, berate adversaries and reassure embattled Gulf states. Never before has a U.S. president, the world’s most powerful figure, telegraphed his thoughts about war planning so publicly, broadcasting his decision-making and communicating his views in real time. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4cZrDp4

President Trump is seeking to lower the profile of his mass deportation effort, and has directed his top advisers to adopt a new approach on one of his central campaign promises, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/41g3Jyr