{"id":18846,"date":"2026-04-11T05:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/vance-heads-to-islamabad-iran-demands-measures-as-make-or-break-talks-near\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:47:48","slug":"vance-heads-to-islamabad-iran-demands-measures-as-make-or-break-talks-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/vance-heads-to-islamabad-iran-demands-measures-as-make-or-break-talks-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance heads to Islamabad; Iran demands measures as ‘make-or-break’ talks near"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance departed on Friday for “make-or-break” negotiations with Iran, even as Tehran insisted on measures before peace talks could take place, throwing last-minute doubt over the meetings scheduled in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump announced ‌a two-week ceasefire in the six-week war on Tuesday, just hours before a deadline after which the U.S. president had threatened to destroy Iran’s civilization.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire has halted U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran. But it has not ended Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or calmed a parallel ‌war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Iran’s parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on X that Washington ⁠had previously agreed to unblock Iranian assets and to a ceasefire in Lebanon, and added that talks would not ⁠start until those pledges are fulfilled.<\/p>\n

His ⁠position was echoed by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who also demanded an end to Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon. Both officials are expected to be at ‌the talks, Pakistani sources said.<\/p>\n

While there was no immediate comment from the White House, Trump said in a social media post that the only reason the ⁠Iranians were alive was to negotiate a deal.<\/p>\n

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“The Iranians don’t seem to realize they ⁠have no cards, other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways. The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!” he said.<\/p>\n

Vance, who will lead the U.S. delegation, said he expected a positive outcome as he headed to Pakistan, but added: “If they’re going to try to play us, then they’re going to find the negotiating team is not that receptive.”<\/p>\n

Iran has ⁠been unable to obtain tens of billions of dollars of its assets in foreign banks, mainly from exports of oil and gas, due to U.S. sanctions ⁠on its banking and energy sectors.<\/p>\n

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, ‌in a national address on Friday night, laid out the stakes of the talks.<\/p>\n

“The permanent ceasefire is the next difficult phase, which is to resolve the complicated issues through negotiation. This, as called in English, is a make-or-break phase,” Sharif said.<\/p>\n

ISRAELI-HEZBOLLAH FIGHTING CONTINUES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Israel and the U.S. have said the campaign against militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon is not part of the agreed ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Israel launched the biggest attack of the war hours after the ceasefire was announced, killing more ‌than 350 people in surprise strikes on heavily populated areas, Lebanese authorities said.<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes continued across southern Lebanon on Friday. One strike on a government building in the city of Nabatieh killed 13 members of Lebanon’s state security forces, President Joseph Aoun said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah said in a statement on its Telegram channel that it fired rocket salvos at northern Israeli towns in response.<\/p>\n

Lebanese authorities say at least 1,953 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since March 2.<\/p>\n

IRANIAN HARD LINE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hard line taken by Iran’s leaders ahead of the negotiations followed a defiant message from its new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Khamenei, yet to be seen in public since taking over from his father, who was killed on the war’s first day, said Iran would ​demand compensation for all wartime damage.<\/p>\n

“We will certainly not leave unpunished the criminal aggressors who attacked our country,” he said.<\/p>\n

Although Trump has declared victory and degraded Iran’s military capabilities, the war has not achieved many of the aims he set out at the start: to deprive Iran ‌of the ability to strike its neighbours, dismantle its nuclear program, and make it easier for its people to overthrow their government.<\/p>\n

Iran still possesses missiles and drones capable of hitting its neighbors and a stockpile of more than 400 kg of uranium enriched near the level needed to make a bomb. Its clerical rulers, who faced a popular uprising just ‌months ago, withstood the onslaught with no sign of organised opposition.<\/p>\n

Tehran’s agenda at the talks includes major new concessions, including the end of sanctions that ⁠crippled its economy for years, and acknowledgment of ⁠its authority over the strait, where it aims to collect transit fees and ​control access in what would amount to a huge shift in regional power.<\/p>\n

Iran’s ships were sailing through the strait unimpeded on Friday, ⁠while those of other countries remained hemmed inside.<\/p>\n

Disruption to ‌energy supplies has fed inflation and slowed the global economy, with an impact expected to last for months ​even if negotiators succeed in reopening the strait.<\/p>\n

U.S. monthly inflation data released on Friday, the first to show the war’s impact, showed consumer prices rose by 0.9% in March, the fastest rate since the mid-2022 inflation shock that eroded support for Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

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