(AURN News) — The United States is dispatching a high-level delegation to Islamabad for talks with Iran as a fragile ceasefire enters a critical phase.
“The president is dispatching his negotiating team led by the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, Special Envoy Witkoff, and Mr. Kushner to Islamabad for talks this weekend. The first round of those talks will take place on Saturday morning, local time,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing.
Following the two-week ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump on social media, this session represents a major attempt to bridge the gap between Iran’s 10-point counterproposal and the U.S.’ 15-point Epic Fury exit strategy from the war with Iran.
While Leavitt, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the president have declared “victory” in Iran, several critical questions remain unanswered:
Will the U.S. accept any level of domestic uranium enrichment? How will the phased lifting of sanctions look? If Iran demands immediate relief, and with Israel explicitly excluding Lebanon from the ceasefire, can a regional peace truly hold?
For now, all eyes are on Islamabad to see whether what Vance described as a “fragile truce” will hold.
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