Hadil al-Sholchi
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NPR News: 04-10-2025 10AM EDT
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, President Trump said he was ready to order military strikes against Iran to stop it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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NPR News: 04-10-2025 10AM EDT
After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said there would be direct talks with Iran this weekend, but later Iran said they would in fact be indirect.
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Netanyahu, who has been outspoken in the past in calling for military pressure on Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon, said this week that he would support a diplomatic agreement that would see Iran give up its nuclear program. Hadil Alshalchi, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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NPR News: 03-30-2025 6PM EDT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that, quote, a combination of military and diplomatic pressure has been the only way to bring back the hostages held in Gaza.
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He said it was more effective to negotiate with Hamas during a military campaign. Netanyahu said that Israel is prepared to talk about the final stages of the ceasefire deal only if Hamas lays down its arms and its leaders leave Gaza. Hamas has said that it has agreed to a proposal from international mediators.
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Netanyahu's office said it countered with its own proposal in coordination with the United States. Neither side confirmed the details publicly, but they have been negotiating on how many hostages Hamas would release for a ceasefire. Hadil Al-Shalchi, NPR News.
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NPR News: 12-14-2024 7PM EST
I'm standing in what was probably the living room of this fancy warehouse luxury villa overlooking the Damascus countryside. But the smell in here is so strong. It smells of chemicals. Stacked behind me to the ceiling are these drums of chemicals that were used for the Captagon. And there's also these stacks that look like flower bags.
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But again, they have the chemicals that are used to make Captagon. There are all these heavy duty machinery also used to make the drug in a very incongruous setting with these chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. and the end product was Captagon. these tiny pills that propped up the Syrian economy under Bashar al-Assad.