Delegations from Iran, US hold conflict settlement talks in Islamabad — agency

TEHRAN, April 11. /TASS/. Peace settlement negotiations between the Iranian and US delegations are underway in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. Tasnim news agency reported in turn that the Iranian delegation agreed to participate in this round of negotiations with the mediation of Pakistan, despite distrust towards opponents and also taking into account the previous experience of US violating its previous pledges regarding the negotiations. Reuters reported earlier in the day citing its source that US Vice President JD Vance arrived in Islamabad on Saturday morning. According to the source, US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and businessman Jared Kushner also arrived in the capital of Pakistan for the peace talks. Iran’s delegation led by Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf arrived in the Pakistani capital on Friday night. It also includes Iranian Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Akbar Ahmadian, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian state broadcaster reported. On Friday evening, Ghalibaf said that the US had failed to fulfill two truce terms that must be met before the start of negotiations, including a ceasefire in Lebanon and the unfreezing of Iranian assets. The Islamic Republic’s state television claims that Iran will begin negotiations with the US if Washington accepts all of Tehran’s preconditions. An informed source told TASS that the meeting will be extremely tense as Tehran’s demands to stop Israeli attacks on Lebanon are not being met. The search for compromises based on Tehran’s ten-point proposal is expected to be the central theme of the talks. These include the principle of non-aggression, Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, uranium enrichment on the territory of the Islamic Republic, the lifting of primary and secondary sanctions, compensation payments, and the withdrawal of American forces from the region.