White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt said that US Vice President J.D. Vance will lead a team of American representatives in the talks with Iran scheduled for April 11 in Islamabad.
The negotiating team will include the US President’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the businessman, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
“The first round of these negotiations will take place on Saturday morning local time, and we look forward to those in-person meetings,” Levitt said in a press conference.
A White House spokeswoman said this shortly after Pakistan announced that it had detected a violation of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Tehran’s representatives stated that they closed the Strait of Hormuz due to the fact that Israel, despite the ceasefire, continued large-scale military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi maleThat “the United States must choose – a truce or the continuation of the war through Israel.” Araqchi said: “The whole world is seeing the mass killings in Lebanon. The ball is in the court of the United States and the world is watching to see whether it will fulfill its obligations.”
And the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, at the same time maleWhich considers the negotiations “unreasonable” because the United States violated the ceasefire in Lebanon, violated Iranian airspace with a drone, and the United States denies Iran’s right to enrich uranium.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Iran had set a condition for participating in the negotiations with the United States, which was a ceasefire in Lebanon. The White House believes that Lebanon is not included in the agreement Ceasefire with Iran.
The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Meanwhile, Israel, despite the ceasefire, attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on April 8. Data According to authorities, at least 254 people were killed and more than 1,165 others were injured.