Big Questions About US-Iran Deal, Trump Wraps G7 Summit, Georgia Primary Results
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President Trump wraps up the G7 summit in France today, saying Iran is now in the rearview mirror as he criticizes Israel over Lebanon and turns his attention to ending the war in Ukraine.
And primary runoffs in Georgia delivered a split for President Trump, whose backing helped Mike Collins win the Republican Senate nomination to face Jon Ossoff while his pick for governor lost to a self-funded billionaire.
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(05:45) Trump Wraps G7 Summit
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. and Iran are expected to sign a deal this Friday, but very few have actually seen what's in it. |
| 0:07.6 | Big questions remain over billions in frozen Iranian funds and the continued Israeli occupation and attacks in Lebanon. |
| 0:14.1 | Israel has to see the agreement and was turned down. |
| 0:16.5 | Ami Martinez, that's Lela Fadl, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:22.2 | President Trump wraps up three days at the G7 summit in France today. |
| 0:26.1 | He says Iran is in the rear view, but Israel is hurting his efforts or peace. |
| 0:31.1 | I've had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon. |
| 0:39.0 | He wants to focus on ending the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:41.4 | And a candidate backed by President Trump won the Republican nomination for Georgia's Senate seat, |
| 0:46.5 | but his pick for governor lost to a billionaire who spent more than $100 million of his own money. |
| 0:51.9 | Stay with us. We have the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:04.8 | Vice President J.D. Vance is headed to Switzerland this Friday to sign a tentative deal to end the war with Iran. But the details are still unknown, even to Israel, America's partner in this war. So while the two went into this war together, how to end it is driving a wedge between them. |
| 1:16.8 | Joining us to discuss this and more is NPR international correspondent Ayabatrowe, who is in Cairo. Good morning. Good morning, Leila. So this agreement is being signed on Friday. And A, I feel like I've been asking this since we first reported on it at the beginning of the week. Is there any more clarity on what is actually being agreed to here? Yeah. I mean, well, Iran is giving some indications of what this really centers on. And it's three main points. They say the first is ending the war. The second is that Iran would |
| 1:44.7 | open the Strait of Hamos again for commercial shipping. And the third is that the U.S. would end its |
| 1:49.4 | blockade of Iranian ports. And Iran says that already this week, ships have been reaching |
| 1:54.7 | Iranian ports ever since this deal was announced. Now, Iran also says that this is a one and a half |
| 2:00.6 | page memorandum of understanding, |
| 2:02.7 | and that after it is signed on Friday, the two sides will sit down for talks on Iran's nuclear |
| 2:07.4 | program and U.S. sanctions. And for those talks, fans will be sitting across from Iran's chief |
| 2:12.8 | negotiator who is Mohamed Bahar Gadibaf. He's a senior politician and a former commander in the Revolutionary Guard. |
| 2:19.3 | Beyond Iran, opening the Strait of Hormuz, which, by the way, was fully open before this war to oil tankers and ships. |
| 2:25.3 | What do you know about what each side gets here? |
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