"Line from NPR news and Washington, on core of a comment, the US and Iran say...
reached an agreement and the war, after three months of hostilities."
“President Trump says it'll be assigning ceremony Friday, in Geneva.”
Iran says the deal was reached after "difficult negotiation." Carim Sajappur is with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Studies Iran. He says this agreement is different from what the President initially promised. When he launched the war in February 28th, he claimed he was going to further obliterate Iran's nuclear program, raise its missile production to the ground, defying its regional
proxies and potentially even unseat the Iranian regime. He called for Iran's unconditional surrender. And unfortunately none of that has happened. What we have achieved with this phase one agreement is essentially re-opening the state of Hamas, which was open before the war.
He spoke to NPR's morning addition.
There are not a lot of details being released about the agreement.
Israel has not been part of the negotiations, and NPR's carry-con reports Israel says it won't retreat from Lebanon.
“Both President Trump and Iranian officials say the deal calls for an immediate cessation”
of fighting on all fronts, including Lebanon. However, it's unclear whether Israel will go along with that stipulation. Israeli Defense Minister Israel cat said both he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree, Israel will not retreat from Lebanon, where it is fighting Iranian back-to-hezbollah militants. Nor will it leave Syria or Gaza either, and cats added that is "despite all the existing
pressures and those that may yet come." Cross-border clashes yesterday between Israel and Hezbollah, including Israel's deadly air-strike on a Beirut suburb, almost scuttled Sunday's announcement of a deal. Carry-con in PR News, Tel Aviv. President Trump is going to France today to attend the G7 summit of industrialized nations.
The deal with Iran is expected to come up in discussion. Trump is also expected to meet with Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. The European Union formally starts the "excession" process for Ukraine and Moldova today. Larry Schultz reports the two countries' process has been sped up due to Russia's war on Ukraine.
“European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von Delein”
said the beginning of negotiations on EU membership for Ukraine and Moldova indicates "recognition of the determination, courage, and hard work shown by both countries in advancing reforms, even in the face of immense challenges." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country has done everything necessary to get to this stage and that he expects the process to move quickly.
That will still take several years at a minimum. The decision by all EU governments to move ahead came after former Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, who opposed Ukrainian membership, was voted out of office in April. This is NPR. A medical examiner in Pennsylvania has ruled the hypothermia death of a Haitian asylum
seeker as a homicide, Daphne Michelle died in early March three days after she was released from immigration custody. She even found that a Pittsburgh bus shelter and taken to the hospital. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner says the homicide determination means the death was caused by another, but it may not necessarily be a criminal action.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 12 people were killed when their skydiving plane crashed in the town of Butler yesterday, that's south of Kansas City. From Member's Station, KCUR, Madeleine Fox reports. Officials say the single-engine turbo prop plane was operated by Skydive Kansas City. All 11 passengers were on their way up to Skydive.
Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson says many of the skydivers family members were watching from the ground. "We just want to make sure that they're comforted. We have multiple clergy people here. We have multiple volunteers that's tending to any needs that they have or as much questions
we can answer for them early on." The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash. For NPR News, I'm Madeleine Fox in Kansas City. NBC News says former longtime arts reporter and movie critic Jean Schallett died last
Friday. He was 100 years old. Schallett was famous for his stupendous bushy hair and mustache as bow ties, his puns, and his books of humor. Schallett appeared on NBC's The Today Show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010.
He was mimicked on the Muppet Show and Saturday Night Live. This is NPR. "So, this is our class. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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