Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump today ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran. He also said he has plenty of time to reach a peace deal and stress that his top priority is making sure that Tehran never possesses nuclear weapons. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports.

Trump was testy, responding to a reporter's question as to whether he'd use a nuclear weapon

against Iran.

Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them

without it. No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.

Earlier this month, Trump threatened Iran on social media, saying, quote,

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again, unquote.

Trump also tells reporters now that he is not in a hurry to come to a peace deal with Iran,

saying, quote, I don't want to rush it. I want to take

my time. We have plenty of time. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News, the White House. President

Trump says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks. The two sides met at

the White House today for high-level negotiations.

An internet blackout in Iran is approaching the two-month mark with very few people able to communicate outside of the country.

Dori Buscaran heard from one Iranian who protested the regime before the war and now feels frustrated with the extended ceasefire.

A cafe worker in Roche wrote to NPR that wartime conditions have put pressure on people,

economically and psychologically, but that, quote, the declaration of the ceasefire was like a bullet that completely destroyed our hopes.

Despite his opposition to the regime, he said,

quote, if everything ends like this and no meaningful changes made,

we too will come to believe that America is the great devil

that the Islamic Republic has been proclaiming for years.

For NPRN News, I'm Jerry Buscarin in Istanbul.

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