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President Trump said today at a post on social media that the U.S. Navy will blockade
any and all ships trying to enter or leave the state of her moods. He also said any ship that paid a fee to Iran to pass through the waterway will not have safe passage through the straight. Trump said the U.S. Navy will begin destroying all minds that Iran has put in the straight. He called the mining of the straight extortion. This morning during an appearance
on Fox News, the President discussed the breakdown of negotiations in Pakistan between the U.S. and Iran.
“"We didn't get there in the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons, and I”
can have nuclear weapons. I've been saying that for 30 years, I would never allow that
to happen before I was in politics, and that country will not have nuclear weapons. Most countries shouldn't be allowed to have, but that country will not have nuclear weapons." Trump did say that progress was made on other issues, but he called the leadership of Iran, quote volatile, difficult, and unpredictable. Leaders from Iran and the United States met face to face in Islamabad, Pakistan, for more than 20 hours Saturday.
Vice President J.D. Vance left the talks after he said the U.S. made its best final offer. Reporter Betsy Joel's in Pakistan says leaders from that country acted as mediators, but ultimately, the two sides were too far apart on the issue of Iran's nuclear capability to get a deal.
“Considering the topics on the table not really, I spoke to Muhammad Faisal, a security analyst”
at the University of Technology Sydney about this. Here's what he had to say.
Parties were just coming out of a straight ceasefire to expect that they would reach an agreement or a breakthrough in two days or even 24 hours, but expecting too much. And we know that Iran's nuclear program has been a divisive issue between these countries for a long time, so getting something ironed out in a day would have been ambitious. Hungry's long-time prime minister Victor Orban is conceding defeat in national elections
that took place today. The opposition candidate Peter Megar has won the election. He campaigned on what he said was rampant government corruption. In Nigeria, a local official tells voters that scores are feared dead after an air strike Saturday by Nigeria's military. In manual, Akinduow has more on the story. The Aestrak's hit a remote market in the north-eastern state of Bono, where the Boko Haram
insurgency began and where the Nigerian military had been fighting Islamist militant groups. In earlier incidents, Nigeria's Air Force killed at least dozens of civilians in Aestrak's rather than the militants it targeted. The Air Force has blamed intelligence failings and operational errors. In February, about 100 U.S. soldiers arrived in the region in a security pact, including sharing intelligence and training Nigeria's armed forces, Emmanuel Akinduow and Pianus.
Lakers. And you're listening to NPR news from Washington. Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of violating a Kremlin declared ceasefire, so both nations could celebrate orthodox Easter. Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a 32-hour halt to the fighting from 4pm Saturday till the end of Sunday. Ukraine's military said in that time there were nearly 2,300 ceasefire violations,
including drone flights, shelling, and other assaults. Russia claimed Ukraine violated the ceasefire more than 2,000 times. Nearly a year after a large group of inmates escaped from a New Orleans main jail, the state has released a scathing audit of the local sheriff's department,
“NPR's Matt Bloom has more on key findings. Last year's jailbreak put a spotlight on the city's”
security failures. Ten men, some accused of homicide, slipped through a hole in the wall behind a jail cell toilet. The state's audit was requested by the governor. It took nearly a year to complete. Among the findings, staff carried out fewer than 30% of required security checks the week of the escape. Sheriff Susan Hudson, who has since been voted out of office, blamed the issue on chronic underfunding. He audit also recommends stricter oversight of overtime pay and cutting discretionary
spending on things like new staff uniforms. All ten men have since been captured and remaining custody. Matt Bloom and PR News New Orleans. In Miami today, the former Mandarin Oriental hotel once one of South Florida's most exclusive locations was demolished by an implosion. I'm Dan Roman, NPR News in Washington. Support for MP. This week on sources and methods a messy truce with Iran, which remains in control of the state of Hormuz. They feel emboldened.
This war that started with a call to replace the regime. Well, one Haminahee was replaced by another Haminahee. The road ahead in Iran this week on sources and methods the National Security Podcast for MNPR. You can listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
