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What were the outcomes of the U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Historic face-to-face talks between the U.S. and Iran have concluded in Pakistan with no agreement to end the war. Vice President Vance says they talked for 21 hours.
We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement.
We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could. And they have chosen not to accept our terms.
Speaking there from Islamabad, this day is after a fragile temporary ceasefire was announced. President Trump spoke before the talks ended, downplaying the outcome.
I'm getting a lot of reports. They've been meeting for many hours, as you probably have noticed. We'll see what happens. Look, regardless, we win. Regardless what happens, we win.
Speaking there from the White House before leaving for Florida tonight. And the U.S. military says two of its Navy warships sailed through the Strait of Hormuz today. And talks are planned for next week to discuss another front in the Middle East war that's still going on in Lebanon.
President Trump says he asked Israel to scale back its invasion of Lebanon, but Israeli airstrikes are still hitting the southern part of the country. Hundreds have been killed, according to government officials. Lebanon's ambassador in Washington talked to his Israeli counterpart yesterday, the first official contact between the two countries since 1983.
The FAA and the Pentagon say they've signed an agreement on the use of counter-drone laser systems at the southern border. Imperialist Joel Rose reports the deal comes after disagreements about those systems went public.
The FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed a thorough safety assessment of a high-energy counter-drone laser system. and that these systems do not pose, quote, undue risk to passenger aircraft, unquote. But the FAA was not sure about that back in February. The agency briefly shut down the airspace around El Paso after the Pentagon permitted U.S.
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