A tidy end of the war in Iran has eluded President Trump for months.

He continues to both threaten more strikes and promise that peace is imminent.

I'm David Fulkenflick.

And I'm Alyssa Adwarny, and this is up first from NPR News.

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The biggest challenge facing the Trump administration right now, a peace deal with Iran.

It's become a bit of a will-they-won-they Washington story.

It's gone like this. The president announces a deal is forthcoming and we wait.

This week as we waited, an Apache helicopter went down off the Gulf of Oman.

The U.S. blamed Iran.

The U.S. struck Iran.

Iran struck its Gulf neighbors.

And the president threatened to again strike Iran, quote, very hard.

Then, hours later, Trump announced he canceled that plan and that a peace deal was forthcoming.

Joining us now is NPR senior contributor Ron Elving.

Good morning, Ron.

Good to be with you, Alyssa.

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