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I'm Ed Donahue with an AP News Minute.

President Trump says Iran is begging to work out a deal to end the war.

The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated.

They're saying to people, this is a disaster.

They know.

That's why they're talking to us.

And they're only, they wouldn't talk otherwise.

Among those at the president's cabinet meeting today was on voice Steve Whitkopf.

We have, along with your foreign policy team, presented a 15-point action list that forms

the framework for a peace deal.

This has been circulated through the Pakistani government, acting as the mediator.

Iran dismissed a U.S. proposal.

Iran has been blocking ships.

It perceives as linked to the U.S. and Israeli war effort from the Strait of Hormuz.

But it's letting a trickle of others through the crucial waterway.

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