Top updates: US says report on peace talks with Iran at Islamabad is ‘speculative’
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The White House on Monday said that it did not have concrete comments to make on reports that United States Vice President JD Vance and other officials will hold talks with Iran in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad later this week, ANI reported.
US Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was quoted as saying that it was a “fluid situation” and that “speculation about meetings should not be deemed as final until they are formally announced” by the White House. “These are sensitive diplomatic discussions, and the US will not negotiate through the press,” Leavitt added.
The US delegation would include Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff and Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner.
Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:
- The comments by the White House came after the Financial Times reported on Monday that Pakistan was pitching Islamabad as a possible venue for negotiations. The talks involving senior members of the Trump administration and Iran could happen this week, the newspaper reported.
- To this end, Pakistani military chief Asim Munir had spoken with Trump, the Financial Times reported. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that he had spoken with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, but did not mention whether they had discussed the proposed talks.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that any deal...