Geri Buskaran

Two Iranian news outlets close to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

wrote that the new proposal is a 14-point plan.

According to a readout by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency, Iran proposed a 30-day ceasefire period to resolve issues and end the war.

Its leaders demanded the removal of U.S.

forces from Iran's, quote, periphery, an end to the blockade, and reparation payments.

It includes a demand to end the fighting on all fronts, including between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

For NPR News, I'm Geri Buskaran in Istanbul.

A cafe worker in Rasht wrote to NPR that wartime conditions have put pressure on people economically and psychologically, but that, quote, the declaration of the ceasefire was like a bullet that completely destroyed our hopes.

Despite his opposition to the regime, he said, quote, if everything ends like this and no meaningful change is made, we too will come to believe that America is the great devil that the Islamic Republic has been proclaiming for years.

For NPR News, I'm Geri Buskaran in Istanbul.

In a video released by the Associated Press, masked men in army fatigues ride what appears to be a missile launcher through the streets of Tehran, chanting death to America.

It was a celebration of Iran's decision not to send negotiators for more peace talks with the U.S.,

There were also, though, small acts of defiance against the Iranian government.

A young woman in the capital, Tehran, who asked not to be named due to the risk of arrest for speaking to foreign media, described hearing someone playing an accordion in an alley near her home.

Buskers have been banned under the government's wartime rules.

I hadn't seen any street musicians anywhere in months, she said, but last night we heard the sound of life.

For NPR News, I'm Geri Buskaran in Van, Turkey.