When US-Iran talks will happen, and if they will happen at all, is becoming less clear
Iran did not request an extension of the ceasefire.
Vance led the US delegation in talks in Islamabad on April 11-12. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin — Pool / Getty Images
When US and Iran talks will take place and if they will happen at all is becoming less clear with each passing hour, writes the BBC.
While Axios and CNN confidently announced US Vice President JD Vance's visit to Islamabad, where he held the first round of talks on April 11-12, the White House only confirmed the cancellation of his trip after Trump's statement on the ceasefire proposal.
Axios sources spoke of Iran's agreement to participate in the second round of talks, but Tehran never confirmed the information.
Tasnim news agency, linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that Iran had not requested an extension of the ceasefire.
Mahdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of parliament and Iran's chief negotiator, wrote on social media that Trump's words do not carry much weight.
«Trump's extension of the ceasefire is definitely a trick to buy time for a surprise attack,» Reuters quotes him as saying. Mohammadi called the American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz an act of military aggression and added: «It's time for Iran to take the initiative.»
Iranian parliamentarian Mahmoud Nabavian, who was part of the delegation at the talks in Islamabad, wrote on social media platform X after Trump's post about extending the truce that «from now on» negotiations with the United States are «clearly harmful and irrational.»
It is also unclear whether Israel will agree to extend the truce.
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