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Chapter 1: What recent agreement has been made between the U.S. and Iran?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The U.S. and Iran say they are ready to stop fighting. They've announced an initial agreement that President Trump, who's currently at the G7 in France, says will be signed in Switzerland Friday. The deal is expected to open the vital Strait of Hormuz and lift both the U.S. and Iranian blockades that have sharply curtailed the world's oil supply.
From Tel Aviv, NPR's Carrie Conn reports the specifics are still unknown.
Lots of questions remain. But Trump says the straits opening will happen after the deal is signed on Friday, and it will begin with a sweeping of the vital waterway of all mines. He said in the past that the pact would entail a 60-day ceasefire, while both sides begin negotiations on a permanent end to the war.
And then comes really tough issues like Iran's nuclear capabilities and sanctions relief.
NPR's Carrie Khan reporting from Tel Aviv. Well, some countries in the Middle East have welcomed this agreement. Darya Baskarin reports Iranians are expressing relief and anger.
Hardliners opposed to the deal accused Iran's top negotiators of betraying the country's former supreme leader, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in February. But many Iranians critical of their government reacted to the deal with a sense of grim relief. In one voice note sent to NPR by a woman who asked to remain anonymous due to the risk of arrest.
She said she supported the war at first because she thought it would bring regime change. But the people who pay the price of war are everyday people, she says.
If we continue to live like dogs, it will be better.
It's better that we just continue the current dog-like life we have. We don't need a constant danger of death on top of it as well. If the regime can't be defeated by war, then why should there be a war at all, she says. For NPR News, I'm Derry Buscarin, Istanbul.
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