{"id":68228,"date":"2026-04-15T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/68228\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:24:20","slug":"pakistan-pushes-for-second-us-iran-talks-and-seeks-guarantees-for-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/68228\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan pushes for second US-Iran talks and seeks &#8216;guarantees&#8217; for Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\/iran-war\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Officials say next round very close as Sharif visits Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260415 Islamabad Talks\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Officials in Islamabad have told Nikkei Asia that Pakistan is pressing hard to host a second round of talks between the U.S. and Iran ahead of the current two-week ceasefire deadline on April 21. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; After the first round of Islamabad-mediated U.S.-Iran peace talks failed to reach an agreement last weekend, Pakistani officials are increasingly confident they can convene a second round within the next few days &#8212; before the expiry of the two-week ceasefire agreement brokered by Islamabad and announced last Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran war Officials say next round very close as Sharif visits Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey Officials in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[25406,34,650,25403,25404,25405,10383,69,225],"class_list":["post-68228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-guarantees","tag-iran","tag-pakistan","tag-pushes","tag-second","tag-seeks","tag-talks","tag-tehran","tag-us-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116408710914761219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}