US President Donald Trump has canceled a planned trip to Pakistan by envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for peace talks with Iran, Fox News reports.
“I’ve told my people a little while ago they were getting ready to leave, and I said, ‘Nope, you’re not making an 18 hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing,'” the network reports Trump as saying in a phone call.
In a post on Truth Social confirming and explaining his decision to cancel US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s trip to Islamabad for talks with Iran, US President Donald Trump says: “If they want to talk, all they have to do is call.”
With Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi already having left Pakistan, the efforts to reach a deal on ending the war appear to be deadlocked. Iran has demanded that the US end its blockade of Iranian ports as a condition for resuming talks, and the US has ruled this out.
“I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work!” he writes.
Araghchi: Iran ‘yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy’
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that it remains to be seen whether the United States is “truly serious” about diplomacy, after he completes a visit to Pakistan, where he met with senior officials.
In a post on X after leaving Islamabad, Araghchi says he had “shared Iran’s position concerning (a) workable framework to permanently end the war,” but he had “yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy.”
Shortly after his departure, US President Donald Trump said Washington would no longer be sending envoys to Islamabad for talks.
Trump says cancelling of envoys’ Pakistan trip does not mean resumption of war with Iran
US President Donald Trump says that the canceling of US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s trip to Islamabad for talks does not automatically mean war with Iran would restart despite the setback in peace efforts.
Asked whether the cancellation meant he would resume the war, Trump tells Axios: “No. It doesn’t mean that. We haven’t thought about it yet.”
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