U.S. Vice President JD Vance was to travel to Pakistan Tuesday morning but delayed his departure, with no new time set, as uncertainty mounts over whether the second round of talks with Iran to end the war will be held.
U.S. government sources told The New York Times and CNN that the vice president is scheduled to participate in meetings at the White House on Tuesday.
Trip in the air: Iran does not confirm attendance and truce in jeopardy
A White House official says Vice President JD Vance, who is expected to lead the U.S. delegation if talks resume in Pakistan, called off a trip to Pakistan. https://t.co/dZbjrDqfbN
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JD Vance was scheduled to have already left Washington for Islamabad in Pakistan.
But the Islamic Republic has not yet committed to sending a delegation to the Pakistani capital.
The vice president, who led the April 11-12 negotiations in Islamabad that ended without agreement, would travel accompanied by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.
But the Pakistani government said Tuesday that it continues to await formal confirmation of attendance from the Iranian delegation.
A two-week truce in the Iran war expires on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he does not want to extend it if there is no agreement.
Tension to the limit
The Iranian Army said Tuesday that it is prepared to respond decisively to any U.S. ceasefire violation.
This after U.S. forces captured an Iranian vessel in the Sea of Oman.
The two sides have not reached any agreement so far for the free movement of the Strait of Hormuz.
A key route for world trade in crude oil that Tehran has blocked in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli offensive.
He was scheduled to have already departed from Washington
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In addition, since the failure of the first round of negotiations, the United States has maintained a naval blockade against Iran.
U.S. forces announced Tuesday that they intercepted a tanker in the Indo-Pacific linked to the Islamic Republic.
Washington’s main objective in the negotiations is for Iran to renounce uranium enrichment.
And to obtain a nuclear weapon, but Tehran has always maintained that its atomic program is for peaceful and scientific purposes.
With information from EFE
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