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Twice before, Iran has been negotiating with the United States in June and in October,

and both times we have then engaged in an assault on Iran.

There may be a desire for President Trump to end the war with Iran, but there's little

in the way of actual talks happening and little reason for Iran to take American proposals

seriously.

It's a, March 24th, and this is here and now anytime. I'm NPR and WBUR. I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, the war has been a disaster for the global economy, but a few people

are getting rich off it through well-timed beds. Also, denied asylum at America's doorstep,

the Supreme Court case that could make it easier for the U.S. to turn away migrants.

Before we get to that, though, President Trump says talks are underway in the Middle East

and that a deal could happen soon to end the Iran war, but Iran has denied that any talks

are happening.

NPR has confirmed that there are some back-channel communications

between the U.S. and Iran via intermediaries in the Middle East.

But there's good reason to be skeptical that the war, now almost a month old,

is anywhere close to over, says Wendy Sherman.

She was lead negotiator for the two and a half years of talks that

led up to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal under President Obama. President Trump tore up that deal

during his first term. Back in February, Wendy Sherman told us about a week before the U.S.

and Israel attacked Iran that they were likely headed to war. And now, she tells

Indira Lakshmanan, take everything that Trump says about a possible deal to end the war with a heap

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