Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
President Trump says there are constructive conversations with Iran.
He says until Friday he'll pause any U.S. Bombing of Iranian power plants.
He'll wait to see how talks go.
But Iran's foreign ministry says there are no talks,
only that the U.S. Sent messages through friendly countries to Iran and that Iran responded.
NPR's Aya Batrawi says it will be hard for any kind of ceasefire talks to get started.
There's just no trust.
You know, Tehran and Washington were just in talks last month when the U.S.
And Israel decided to launch this war.
And with Iran's top leaders killed,
including its top negotiator last week, it 's unclear who would be speaking on behalf of Iran.
Now, Trump has laid out stiff demands for ending the war.
He's talked about no nuclear enrichment, degrading its missiles.
And he's been clear about Iran cutting off support to Shia militias in like Lebanon and Iraq.
But Iran has rejected these demands even long before this war began.
And it says now that it even wants compensation.
The Senate has confirmed Mark Wayne Mullen to be the next Homeland Security Secretary.
He'll come to an agency that's partially shut down.
TSA agents have not been paid for a month.