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Lauren Freyer

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Up First from NPR
Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

You know, more than a million people have been displaced already by this Israeli invasion.

Up First from NPR
Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

The capital has swelled with a lot of those people, and now they're in danger here.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

We spoke with Zainab Ain.

Up First from NPR
Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

She's an 18-year-old college student from the south sheltering in Beirut.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

She stayed up late at night for that ceasefire announcement.

Up First from NPR
Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Sure, it would mean attacks would stop and she'd return to her studies.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

She says hopefully Iran will do something, you know, stick up for Lebanon.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

And that's what Iran says this closure of the Strait of Hormuz is about.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

It's Iran's response to these Israeli attacks against its proxy here in Lebanon, Hezbollah.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Yeah, so oil is still at around $100 a barrel.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

That's about a third higher than before this war began.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is supposed to sort of formalize a system of charging fees for ships to pass through that waterway.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Some countries don't want that.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

You know, the British foreign secretary called today for the strait to go back to where it was before, a toll-free international waterway.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

But Iran has control now and wants to keep that.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Yeah, that's in Pakistan.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Vice President J.D.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Vance is going to that.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Iran has threatened to cancel those talks, though, because of these attacks on Lebanon.

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Trump and NATO, Shaky Ceasefire In Middle East, Lebanon's Day Of Mourning

Vance said yesterday that Israel has offered to, quote, check themselves a little bit in Lebanon to make sure those talks are successful.