Aya Batraoui
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1,547 appearances
186 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
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And those include, for example, an end to Israel's war on the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel controls a huge part of the south of Lebanon and where people are being killed daily in Lebanon.
And also some of these demands now include war reparations, a total lifting of a U.S.
naval blockade out at sea that's keeping Iran from freely being able to export its oil.
Kuwait's Interior Ministry says a group of six men landed on its Bubian Island on May 1st with a rented fishing boat to, quote, carry out a mission that included hostile acts against the state of Kuwait.
It named all six and listed their rank in Iran's navy.
The statement says Kuwaiti forces exchanged fire with the group and that a member of Kuwait's armed forces was wounded in the clashes.
Kuwait says two of the men fled, while the other four were arrested and confessed during interrogation to belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Iran has attacked Gulf Arab states with missiles and drones throughout the U.S.-Israeli war on it.
But this incident in Kuwait marks the first time a Gulf Arab state says its forces clashed with Iranian forces on its soil.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
This was so abrupt that a person briefed on the matter not authorized to speak to the media told NPR that even Israel did not know about Trump's intention to end Project Freedom and had actually been preparing for an escalation.
So what Trump says is he paused the operation because of what he calls great progress in reaching a final deal with Iran.
And there were calls from countries in the region to Trump as well.
In a post on X, Pakistan's prime minister, who's mediating between the U.S.
and Iran, thanked Trump for pausing this operation.
And he said that he and Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had asked Trump to do just that and move toward reconciliation.
The operation called Project Freedom began Monday with the U.S.
Navy guiding just two U.S.
flag merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz, but not before several Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats were sunken.
Iran then fired at the U.S.
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