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President Trump says Iran should pay the U.S.
Reparations for five decades of pain and suffering, including, quote, all of the people
that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts.
His threat comes after Iran demanded the U.S.
End its blockade of Iranian imports, live sanctions, release frozen assets held by the Islamic Republic,
and compensate for war damage.
And Piers Franco Ordonez reports.
It was just a week ago that Trump was touting great progress, as he has before,
and even boasted that he would soon be announcing an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
That's obviously not happening now.
Instead, he's signaling a change in tactics, saying he's going to be low-king negotiations, calling it a chess match,
and saying he's going to focus on economic pressure, and also getting into this public spat about compensation.
It all just does not project a terrible amount of confidence that a deal is around the corner.
NPR's Franco Ordonez reporting.
Some voters in Alabama will be casting ballots today for a second time in a congressional primary.
NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the special election comes after the Supreme
Court removed race as a consideration for drawing districts, but allowed for gerrymandering.
The map, approved by the Republican-controlled legislature,
creates a more difficult path to re-election for the two black Democrats in Alabama's congressional delegation.