What’s next after Iran truce / Hormuz status / Israel and Lebanon
Sources & Methods
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Will it hold? Is the war over? What’s the way ahead?
Host Mary Louise Kelly, NPR Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman and NPR International Correspondent Daniel Estrin walk through where things stand from the point of view of each of the major stakeholders: the United States, Israel, Lebanon and Iran.
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| 0:00.0 | I do think these next several weeks are money time, and this is the time when everyone will be |
| 0:07.9 | coming with their asks and their demands. At the 11th hour, with President Trump's self-imposed |
| 0:14.6 | deadline looming the United States and Iran entered a truce. Will it hold? Is the war over? What's the way ahead? This is |
| 0:25.0 | sources and method from NPR. I'm Mary Louise Kelly every Thursday on this podcast. I dive deep into |
| 0:33.2 | the week's biggest national security stories with NPR reporters out there covering them, |
| 0:38.8 | joining me in the studio, NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi, my friend. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello, Mary Louise. |
| 0:44.9 | And in Tel Aviv, NPR international correspondent, Daniel Estrin. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello to you, my faraway friend. |
| 0:51.6 | Hi there. |
| 0:52.3 | Hey. |
| 0:52.8 | So to timestamp this, it is just past noon, Eastern Thursday for Tom and me. |
| 0:59.6 | That's what, around dinner time for you, Daniel? |
| 1:01.7 | That's about right. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, I guess I'll eat after this. |
| 1:04.3 | 7 p.m. or so. |
| 1:06.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:07.3 | It has been around six weeks since the start of the U.S. Israel War against Iran on Tuesday night, |
| 1:14.1 | the U.S. and Iran entered a last-minute apocalypse averting ceasefire. Now, this came 90 minutes |
| 1:21.2 | before President Trump's deadline, and there is still a lot of firing going on during this nominal |
| 1:26.7 | ceasefire. |
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