JD Vance to lead team for peace talks with Iran in Pak, 1st round on April 11
India Today
Trump sends a Vance-led team to Pakistan for US-Iran talks starting Saturday, as Washington rejects earlier Iranian proposals but signals progress after a revised plan aligned with US demands.
The White House is moving quickly from battlefield pressure to diplomacy, with US President Donald Trump dispatching a high-level team led by Vice President JD Vance to Pakistan for the first round of US-Iran talks this Saturday.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump is dispatching his Iran negotiating team, led by Vice President JD Vance, to Pakistan for talks, with the first round scheduled for Saturday.
Leavitt added that Vance will be joined by senior Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for the negotiations in Islamabad. “The first round of those talks will take place on Saturday morning local time, and we know we look forward to those in-person meetings,” Leavitt told reporters.
The announcement signals a shift from confrontation to diplomacy, even as the White House maintains a hard public line. Leavitt said Iran’s ability to arm proxy groups in the region has been significantly curtailed following US and Israeli strikes that began on February 28.
“Iran can no longer distribute weapons to its proxy groups,” she said, framing the military campaign as having reshaped the balance ahead of negotiations.
“Iran can no longer distribute weapons to its proxy groups,” she said, framing the military campaign as having reshaped the balance ahead of negotiations.
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