Iran begin direct talks in Pakistan, seeking end to six-week war
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Senior U.S. and Iranian officials met on Saturday in Islamabad for the highest-level talks between Washington and Tehran in half a century as they sought to bring an end to their six-week war.
The talks between Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi lasted for two hours before the delegations broke for a rest, according to a Pakistani source. Pakistan's army chief was also present.
As the talks began, there were conflicting accounts of what had been agreed.
A U.S. official told Axios that several U.S. Navy ships on Saturday had crossed the Strait of Hormuz, whose blockade by Iran has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies. But Iranian state TV and a Pakistani source denied that any U.S. vessel had passed through the waterway.
"We're now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote in a social media post, adding that all 28 of Iran's mine-dropping ships had been sunk.
Earlier, a senior Iranian source told Reuters the U.S. had agreed to release frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks, an assertion swiftly denied by a U.S. official.
