Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey.

Vice President J.D. Vance is on his way to Pakistan to head a U.S. delegation in peace talks with Iran.

President Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews this afternoon and set expectations.

Well, I wish him luck. He's got a big thing. We'll find out what's going on.

They're militarily defeated. And now we're going to

open up the Gulf with or with or without them. But that'll be open. We're going to be, or the

straight as they call it. And I think it's going to go pretty quickly. And if it does it, we'll be

able to finish it off one way or the other. Trump was on his way to a fundraiser at the Trump winery in Virginia.

He said a good deal would mean no nuclear weapons capability for Iran.

Trump said the strait of Hormuz will be opened up,

although the president again said other countries will have to take that on,

or that Iran would reopen the straight out of its own

interests. According to Iranian media, the head of Iran's forensic medical agency says that over

3,000 people have been killed so far in the war. The Iranian Red Crescent has also released some

figures on the number of damage civilian facilities. NPR's Di Parvaz has more from Von Turkey.

The head of Iran's forensic medical agency says the country's death toll in the war over the

past six weeks has surpassed 3,000. State media outlets quote Abbas-Mashti Adonis as saying

that some 40 percent of the bodies are unidentifiable. And this casualty figure differs from what human rights

groups have estimated. They put the number of civilian deaths at somewhere between 1,000 and

1700 in recent days, and they've also estimated that over 6,000 military and revolutionary guard

members have been killed. Additionally, 857 schools, 32 universities, and 338 hospitals were damaged or destroyed by

airstrikes, according to the Iranian Red Crescent.

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