{"id":4281,"date":"2026-04-19T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:19:29","slug":"trump-sends-jd-vance-to-pakistan-again-for-more-talks-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4281","title":{"rendered":"Trump sends JD Vance to Pakistan again for more talks with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0said U.S. negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for another round of talks with Iran, raising hopes of extending\u00a0a fragile ceasefire\u00a0set to expire by Wednesday even as Washington and Tehran remain in a standoff over the\u00a0Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Iran did not immediately confirm the talks but its chief negotiator, parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf, said in an interview aired on state television late Saturday that \u201cthere will be no retreat in the field of diplomacy,\u201d while acknowledging a wide gap remained between the sides.<\/p>\n

The White House said Vice President JD Vance, who led the\u00a0first round\u00a0of historic face-to-face talks last weekend, would lead the delegation to Pakistan with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n

Pakistani authorities began tightening security in Islamabad. A regional official involved in the efforts said mediators were finalizing preparations and U.S. advance security teams were already on the ground. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to discuss preparations with the media.<\/p>\n

Iran on Saturday said it had received new proposals from the United States. It was unclear whether either side had shifted stances on issues that derailed the last round of negotiations, including\u00a0Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment program, its regional proxies and control over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s announcement repeated his threats against Iranian infrastructure that have drawn widespread criticism and warnings of war crimes. If Iran doesn\u2019t agree to the U.S.-proposed deal, \u201cthe United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Iran says transits of the Strait of Hormuz are \u2018impossible\u2019<\/p>\n

Ships remained unable to transit\u00a0the critical waterway\u00a0amid threats from Iran and a U.S. blockade on ships heading to and from Iranian ports. Roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil trade normally passes through the strait, and the\u00a0global energy crisis\u00a0threatened to deepen as the war is now in its eighth week.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials earlier on Sunday held firm that ships wouldn\u2019t pass while the U.S. blockade remained in effect. \u201cIt is impossible for others to pass through the Strait of Hormuz while we cannot,\u201d Qalibaf said.<\/p>\n

In his post about talks, Trump accused Iran of violating the ceasefire by firing at ships transiting the strait. Iran has called the U.S. blockade a violation, and foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei on Sunday called it an \u201cact of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran had announced the strait\u2019s reopening after a\u00a010-day truce\u00a0between Israel and the Iranian-backed\u00a0Hezbollah militant group\u00a0in Lebanon took hold on Friday. But Iran said it would continue enforcing its restrictions there after Trump said the\u00a0U.S. blockade\u00a0\u201cwill remain in full force\u201d until Tehran reaches a deal with the United States.<\/p>\n

After a brief uptick in transit attempts on Saturday, Iran fired on two India-flagged merchant ships that were forced to turn around, leading India to summon Iran\u2019s ambassador over the \u201cserious incident.\u201d India noted that Iran earlier let several India-bound ships through.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0the Islamic Republic, the strait\u2019s closure \u2014 imposed after the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war on Feb. 28 during talks over Tehran\u2019s nuclear program \u2014 is perhaps its most powerful weapon, inflicting political pain on Trump. For the United States, the blockade squeezes Iran\u2019s already weakened economy by denying it long-term cash flow.<\/p>\n

The war has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran,\u00a0more than 2,290 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Fifteen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and 13 U.S. service members throughout the region have been killed.<\/p>\n

Since most supplies to U.S. military bases in the Gulf region come through the strait, \u201cIran is determined to maintain oversight and control over traffic through the strait until the war fully ends,\u201d Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council said late Saturday. That means Iran-designated routes, payment of fees and issuance of transit certificates.<\/p>\n

The council has recently acted as Iran\u2019s de facto top decision-making body.<\/p>\n

Pakistan presses on diplomacy and Iran issues a warning<\/p>\n

Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, who spoke by phone with Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday, has said his country was working to \u201cbridge\u201d differences between the U.S. and Iran.<\/p>\n

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh on Saturday\u00a0told The Associated Press\u00a0that the U.S. is \u201crisking the whole ceasefire package\u201d with its blockade.<\/p>\n

Khatibzadeh said Iran won\u2019t hand over its stock of 970 pounds (440 kilograms) of enriched uranium to the United States, calling the idea \u201ca nonstarter.\u201d The deputy minister didn\u2019t address other proposals for the enriched uranium, saying only that \u201cwe are ready to address any concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

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