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President Trump says the war with Iran is not about to resume.

NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordonez has been covering all these fits and starts, and he's with us now.

Good morning, Franco.

So, you know, another turnaround.

It was the middle of the night in Iran when Trump made this announcement.

Have we heard from Tehran yet?

You know, President Trump has mentioned so many different objectives for this war.

You know, it was helping the protesters there.

It was regime change, preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, preventing or diminishing their ballistic missile capability.

Do you have a sense from your reporting of what the objective really is at this point?

So, Franco Trump's back and forth rhetoric swinging from saying he's going to wipe out Iran's civilization to twice now not following through on these threats.

Is this having an impact on the U.S.