Cecilia Lei

One country seen as a neutral player with strong links to both sides has emerged as a possible peace broker.

Pakistan's prime minister said on X his country stands ready to host face-to-face talks between the two sides, a post Trump shared on his social media.

Pamuk told us that a key question for potential talks is how close U.S.

and Israeli objectives align.

Trump has retreated from his original goal of regime change in Iran, suggesting that remaining Iranian representatives were behaving differently than their predecessors.

Pamuk said that, ultimately, it'll come down to when the U.S.

decides it wants to stop the war.

There are conflicting signals on that, too.

Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon ordered a couple thousand of Army paratroopers to the Middle East.

And there were more attacks from both sides.

Iran said a projectile landed near one of its nuclear power plants, and plumes of smoke rose over buildings in Tehran yesterday after Israeli strikes.

Meanwhile, Iran fired missiles into Israel, and there were more drone attacks on Gulf neighbors, including Kuwait's airport.

The U.S.

government founded the Voice of America during World War II with the goal of delivering news to people living under Nazi rule.

Later, during the Cold War, it was seen as a way to advance American values as a soft power tool.

But Trump has long accused the broadcasting service, which reached more than 360 million people globally a week, of doing the opposite.

He said it spread anti-American news propaganda.

In his second term, he appointed former TV anchor Carrie Lake to a senior advisor role without any Senate confirmation.

Then she immediately began major cutbacks.

NPR media correspondent David Fulkenflik told us about it.