WashingtonWith every passing hour, the ceasefire becomes narrower and more elusive. Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to travel to Islamabad on Tuesday to try again to reach some kind of agreement with Iran. The problem, however, is that this time it is not confirmed that the Iranians will be seated at the other end of the table. President Donald Trump has been making numerous contradictory statements about the future of the talks, including having said that Vance was already on his way to Pakistan when he was not. Tehran has also been sending mixed signals after the marines intercepted an Iranian ship in Hormuz. On the one hand, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that there are “no plans” for a new meeting, but Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has acknowledged that continuing the war “does not benefit” anyone.<\/p>\n
Initially, Trump had told the New York Post on Monday that Vance, along with the rest of the US delegation, was already flying to Islamabad. This fact itself constituted a minimal indication that there was indeed a possibility that the Iranians would sit down at the table to resume talks before the truce expires on Tuesday night. But now, with the prospect of the vice president flying on the same day the pause is supposed to end, it still adds more uncertainty to the situation.<\/p>\n
In parallel, the Iranians continue to balance to keep all options available on the table but without committing to anything. While officially there is still no confirmation, anonymous administration sources are leaking messages conducive to a new meeting drop by drop. An Iranian official explained to Reuters on Monday that Iran is already considering the possibility of a second round, but that the decision has not yet been made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WashingtonWith every passing hour, the ceasefire becomes narrower and more elusive. Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[592,9816,3065,17068,618,34,27422,69,596,1705],"class_list":{"0":"post-75055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-blur","10":"tag-ceasefire","11":"tag-contradictory","12":"tag-from","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-messages","15":"tag-tehran","16":"tag-the","17":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75055","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=75055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}