Vice President Pauses Trip – Iran Not Responding
Updated 22.13 | Published 19.42
The ceasefire in Iran is ending and talks are planned to be held in Pakistan.
But no one is going there.
– JD Vance overestimated his own efforts in Pakistan, says Shahin Eghraghi, Middle East analyst.
US Vice President JD Vance's planned trip to Islamabad for continued negotiations has been put on hold.
This is stated by an American official with insight into the New York Times.
The reason is that Iran has not yet responded to American negotiation demands.
According to the BBC, Donald Trump is currently meeting with his closest men. They are reportedly discussing whether to send a delegation to Islamabad.
Trump has also announced that he will hold a press conference later this evening.
Vance was supposed to travel to the Pakistani capital on Tuesday morning to negotiate the nuclear issue with Iran. The talks were scheduled for Wednesday, but now it is uncertain whether the talks between the parties will take place at all, at the same time as the ceasefire is approaching its end date.
Middle East analyst Shahin Eghraghi does not believe the talks will continue.
– JD Vance overestimated his own efforts in Pakistan and the Iranians do not perceive that they are going anywhere in the talks. They are also far apart, he says.
You think there will be no more meetings in Islamabad nowu?
– No, but Trump can decide that there will be an extension of the ceasefire. He can always claim that he is talking to the right Iranians somewhere else.
Unclear situation
Iran has not stated that
they will send any delegation to Islamabad either. Instead, they
published threats on the official Telegram account of Iran's supreme
leader. In the post, they threatened to attack American and Israeli
forces.
Despite that, expert Alexander Atarodi is optimistic. He believes that delegations will arrive.
– I think they are waiting each other out and sending delegations at the last minute, he says.
Now everyone involved is wondering what will actually happen.
On Monday, President Donald Trump wrote that Iran had “violated the ceasefire multiple times.” And on Sunday, he vowed to hit Iran hard if they don’t accept a deal.
“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Boarded ship
On
Tuesday, US forces boarded an oil tanker in the Pacific region that had
previously been sanctioned for cooperating with Iran, the first such
action outside the Middle East in connection with the war.
Trump
said in an interview with CNBC that he wants to ensure that the threat
from Iran ends, even if it means not ending the war quickly. “I have all
the time in the world,” he said.
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