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What recent actions has the U.S. military taken regarding Iranian ports?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The U.S. military is blocking ships from entering or exiting Iranian ports absent a peace agreement. The blockade was due to take effect two hours ago. U.S. Central Command says the action will not, quote, impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.
All this is happening on the heels of historic peace talks between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend that produced no agreement toward ending the conflict. Robert Malley was a lead negotiator for the U.S. in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and spoke to NPR about the latest talks.
Listening to what President Trump has said and what some of the background briefings have indicated, it sounds like the U.S. went in and said, here are red lines. were things that we should have known, that Iran would not have accepted it. They didn't accept them before the war.
They're not going to accept them now, having to do with no enrichment, dismantling of all the enrichment facilities, among a long list.
Mally on NPR's Morning Edition. The landslide defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives Hungary a chance to improve its relationship with the European Union. Relations suffered under Orban's anti-EU, pro-Russian stance. From Brussels, Terry Schultz reports on expectations now from the bloc for a new start.
The man likely to be Hungary's next prime minister, Peter Magyar, has pledged to improve ties with the European Union after years in which outgoing leader Viktor Orban vetoed aid to Ukraine and forced the bloc to soften penalties on Moscow for its full-scale invasion. Zsuzsanna Wege of the German Marshall Fund think tank says reversing this should be one of Magyar's top priorities.
The Hungarian government under Orbán has not been using the veto to protect Hungarian interests. It was using the veto to protect Russian interests. So that very clearly will need to stop.
Because Magyar's Tisza party won more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats in Sunday's vote, he will have the political weight to push through real change. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell is suspending his campaign for California governor. A former staff member says a lawmaker sexually assaulted her. At least three other women accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct. Scott Schaefer of member station KQED has more.
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