From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Manvin Rana.

And I'm Luke Jones, and we are back together at last, as we are every month.

To answer some of your questions.

The reunion tour.

The reunion tour.

This week, we've obviously had a lot of questions about Iran, about the possibility of negotiations,

of where the war is, of what might happen next. We will do our best to answer some of those

questions in the rest of this episode. And we'll try and seek some expert opinions on the ones

that we can't. The story at the times.com is how to email us, the story today, your questions answered.

So, one of the first questions we've heard on Iran came from Hugh Smith in Edinburgh, who says,

if not the supreme leader, who has the authority to negotiate with Trump?

So we're hearing a lot about

negotiations happening, a 15-point plan. Or negotiations not happening? Or not happening. Who were they

talking to? Well, who do you think? Because actually, when you go through the list of the people who

have been bumped off in the last few weeks, it spans pretty much every sort of power base in Iran.

And actually, in some instances, they've been replaced by even hard-aligned people, if you think, at the top of the IRGC. Donald Trump seems to think he's had talks going in the last few days to actually get to a point where there can be some cessation of hostilities. Is it clear in your mind who it is he might be talking to? Because as we know in the past, he does freely speak to people on the telephone.

He does.

He'll pick up the phone to anyone, it turns out.

There was a great quote out of the Iranian administration talking about this where they said,

clearly America has become such a divided nation.

They're now negotiating with themselves, which I thought was as rebuttals go, not a bad one. Donald Trump has been

briefing that these negotiations have been happening, and it's been really interesting to watch

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