What did the United States and Iran just agree to?
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover politics. I'm Frank Ordeans. I cover the White House. And I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. And we are taping this at 104 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 8th. Today on the show, when it comes to the war in Iran, we're in |
| 0:22.4 | whiplash territory. In the last day and a half, President Trump threatened to wipe out |
| 0:27.7 | Iranian civilization, doubled down, and then announced a two-week ceasefire. |
| 0:33.7 | Franco, there has been a lot of drama these last two days. |
| 0:39.0 | Walk us through it. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.1 | I mean, I think we went from Trump's most bombastic threats that I think I've ever heard since covering Trump. |
| 0:48.5 | And I've covered him for over a decade. |
| 0:55.4 | I mean, in addition to the whole civilization dying, you know, or the weekend, Trump said that the Iran needs to open the expletive straits to essentially a rocky ceasefire that was announced |
| 1:02.0 | at really the 11th hour before he, you know, went through with this scenario, this apocalyptic |
| 1:08.8 | scenario of bombing bridges and power plants. But for the last 24 |
| 1:14.7 | hours, I mean, I think you could call it a busy day of dealmaking with foreign leaders and religious |
| 1:18.9 | leaders and some domestic leaders really trying to put the pressure on Trump to back off these |
| 1:24.1 | massive threats. And Trump said he agreed to a ceasefire, two-week ceasefire, |
| 1:29.8 | on the condition that the Strait of Hormuz is reopened. But I will note that there are reports |
| 1:35.7 | out of Iranian state media today just in the last couple hours that says the straight remains closed |
| 1:41.9 | because there is still bombing between Israel and Iran and Lebanon. |
| 1:47.4 | So there's a very rocky ceasefire. |
| 1:49.0 | Greg, I want to ask you, do we know what is in this ceasefire agreement or if there even is an agreement? |
| 1:57.2 | Yeah, I don't think there's really an agreement other than we saw the post by |
| 2:04.2 | Pakistan's prime minister, Shabashirif, saying, you know, a two-week ceasefire. And then there were |
| 2:10.4 | references to, because that's Trump's favorite time frame, Iran will leave the Strait of Hormuz |
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