President Donald Trump has cancelled Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s trip to Pakistan for Iran peace negotiations, it has emerged.
Trump has claimed it is not worth sending the pair overseas when the US already has ‘all the cards’ over Tehran, he told Fox News’ White House correspondent Aishah Hasnie on Saturday.
‘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 president said.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Islamabad on Friday and held a series of meetings with Pakistani officials, including the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, today.
Iranian officials left peace talks in Pakistan this afternoon without meeting the US delegation, ruling out ‘maximalist demands’.
But Iran said it would ‘not accept maximalist demands’ as their officials left without meeting US representatives.
Earlier, the White House said President Donald Trump was sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad to ‘hear the Iranians out’.
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