The White House said on Friday that US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are headed to Pakistan today to participate in direct peace talks with Iran.
While Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is indeed in Islamabad for talks about regional peace, Iranian semi-official news agency Tasnim has reported that he would not speak with US officials, as did Nournews Agency, an outlet affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
This uncertainty around the exact status of negotiations is nothing new – and it doesn’t necessarily mean dialogue between the two sides won’t happen, in some form or another.
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