Is Trump really done with his war with Iran?

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

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President Trump is celebrating the two-week ceasefire that the U.S. and Iran agreed to on Tuesday night. The deal includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, but will the U.S. end up walking away without getting much from Iran? Security analyst Jim Walsh discusses the deal.

Then, as negotiations continue, we hear from Radin Yad, who was born in Iran and now lives in Europe.

And, the Center on Conscience and War says it’s seeing a rise in calls from U.S. military members facing deployment who are seeking to be discharged or reassigned as conscientious objectors. We get more context about the process with Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner, the nonprofit’s executive director.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:06.9	We may have blown up a bunch of stuff, but we haven't reached our strategic objectives,
0:11.4	and we're probably the ones who are going to pull out because we don't want the straight being closed and we don't want to escalate.
0:17.0	We're sort of backed into a corner.
0:18.6	A ceasefire with Iran is punitively the start of a negotiated end to the U.S. and Israel's war.
0:34.4	It's Wednesday, April 8th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBWR.
0:39.6	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:43.8	Today on the show, reactions to the two-week ceasefire deal announced between the U.S. and Iran.
0:51.4	An Iranian expat says the war is not going to end with a new government in charge.
0:56.5	I don't see it ending with a regime change. You don't? No, I don't think bombs will cause a regime
1:03.7	change. Also, an American nonprofit has fielded hundreds of calls from active duty military
1:10.2	since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
1:13.2	They want to register as conscientious objectors.
1:16.2	Many people in the country, they had their consciousness shifted over Israel-Palestine
1:20.9	throughout the war on Gaza.
1:23.0	And many of our callers referenced that, saying that's when they started to wake up,
1:27.2	but there was a layer of separation between themselves and the U.S. military and the conduct of the
1:30.6	Israeli military.
1:31.6	Well, now here we are fighting a war with Israel, doing the kinds of things that Israel became notorious for throughout the Gaza War.
1:38.3	That story coming up in about 15 minutes.
1:40.9	But first, what to make of this ceasefire deal? The U.S. cast it as a victory. Here's
1:48.7	Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. This new regime was out of options and out of time. So they cut a deal.
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