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What recent developments are impacting U.S.-Iran relations?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. Vice President J.D. Vance is on his way to Pakistan to head a U.S. delegation in peace talks with Iran. President Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews this afternoon and set expectations.
Well, I wish him luck. He's got a big thing. We'll find out what's going on. They're militarily defeated. And now we're going to open up the Gulf with or without him. But that'll be open. We're going to be, or the Strait as they call it. And I think it's going to go pretty quickly. And if it doesn't, we'll be able to finish it off one way or the other.
Trump was on his way to a fundraiser at the Trump Winery in Virginia. He said a good deal would mean no nuclear weapons capability for Iran. Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be opened up, although the president again said other countries will have to take that on, or that Iran would reopen the Strait out of its own interests.
According to Iranian media, the head of Iran's forensic medical agency says that over 3,000 people have been killed so far in the war. The Iranian Red Crescent has also released some figures on the number of damaged civilian facilities. NPR's Dee Parvaz has more from Van, Turkey.
The head of Iran's forensic medical agency says the country's death toll in the war over the past six weeks has surpassed 3,000. State media outlets quote Abbas Masjidi Arani as saying that some 40 percent of the bodies are unidentifiable. and this casualty figure differs from what human rights groups have estimated.
They put the number of civilian deaths at somewhere between 1,000 and 1,700 in recent days, and they've also estimated that over 6,000 military and Revolutionary Guard members have been killed. Additionally, 857 schools, 32 universities, and 338 hospitals were damaged or destroyed by airstrikes, according to the Iranian Red Crescent. Deepa Raz, NPR News, Van, Turkey.
Lower-income Americans are cutting back on their discretionary spending because of higher gas prices. That's according to a new report from the Bank of America Institute. But NPR's Stephen Passaha says most Americans are still spending elsewhere.
Lower-income Americans are spending a bit less on things like travel and restaurants. But David Tinsley with the Bank of America Institute says overall spending outside of gas is still up.
Consumers so far are weathering this gasoline shock quite comfortably. They're still finding room to spend on the nice-to-have parts of their baskets.
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