by Ben Whedon
Vice President JD Vance will lead the U.S. delegation to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran over the weekend, the White House confirmed on Wednesday.
“I can announce that [the president] is dispatching his negotiating team, led by the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, Special Envoy Witkoff, and Mr. [Jared] Kushner to Islamabad for talks this weekend,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.
“We look forward to those in-person meetings,” she added. The talks are slated to begin on Saturday morning.
Complicated negotiations, however, is the Iranian threat to end the ceasefire if the U.S. did not force Israel to stop fighting in Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday said that “[t]he Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.”
The U.S. has denied that the terms of the ceasefire include Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah are engaged in fierce fighting.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that America was “working closely with Iran.”
“We have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” the president said.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
