Tehran, Iran
The Iranian delegation for peace talks with USAled by the Speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, arrived in Islamabad, as first reported by Iranian agencies such as Fars and Tasnim and later confirmed by the Government of Pakistan.
The news comes after days of uncertainty about whether Tehran would travel to the Pakistani capital to participate in the negotiations, following disagreements between Iran and USA on the base points from which to work towards an agreement and on the inclusion or not of Lebanon in the ceasefire.
He Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Shortly afterward, it released images of the Iranian delegation’s arrival in Islamabad, thus confirming its presence.
According to the information released by Iranian agencies, which appears to be a statement when reproduced in the same way and without changes, although it does not cite a specific source, the presence of the Iranian delegation in Pakistan It does not guarantee that the talks have begun, but rather that they will begin when “the other party accepts Tehran’s preconditions to sit down to negotiate.”
The minister of Iran Foreign AffairsAbbas Araqchi; the secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, General Ali Akbar Ahmadian, and the governor of the Central Bank, Abdolnaser Hemmati, among others, are part of the delegation.
The vice president of USA, JD Vance traveled to Islamabad this Friday to lead the American side in the negotiations.
According to information from the Iranian media, Vance is already in the Pakistani capital.
Previously, Qalibaf stated this Friday that USA has not yet met two of the conditions they accepted to begin peace negotiations in Pakistan, such as cease-fire in Lebanon and the release of frozen Iranian assets.
